Removing Carpet And Installing Vinyl Flooring

Costs to install vinyl or linoleum flooring run from 3 10 a square foot.

Removing carpet and installing vinyl flooring.

Moisture can also emanate from an unsealed crawl space. However with carpet in particular the subfloor can be exposed to excess moisture leaking down through the floor. Carpet removal costs 1 to 1 50 per square foot including labor cleanup and waste disposal. In some circumstances you can install new flooring such as laminate flooring hardwood or engineered flooring over vinyl flooring as long as it is in good condition.

It s inexpensive and easy to install. It is hard work. The average hourly rate is 60 per hour so expect to pay 180 in total for a contractor to remove and dispose of 12 by. Details cutting laminate floor and prep work before installing new laminate flooring.

The old vinyl will probably come up in small pieces and in some areas the paper backing separates from the vinyl itself and remains on the floor. The subfloor sits on top of the floor joists and provides a smooth level surface for installing any type of flooring. Carpet padding is usually stapled down to the wood subfloor with staples and sometimes the factory worker installing it uses a lot of staples which was our case. Vinyl flooring is a popular option.

Removing old carpet is the first step toward having something besides old stained carpet as your floor. Even if you are hiring someone to install new flooring you may want to pull out the old carpet yourself. This equals 48 to 72 per hour because it usually takes 3 hours to remove carpet from a 12 by 12 foot room including extracting the tack strips and staples. If you are ready to upgrade your existing floor you will need to remove the old vinyl first.

To remove old vinyl remove the transition strips image 1 that hold the carpet in place. Floating floors are an easy mess free way to install new flooring without necessarily having to remove the existing flooring. A vinyl or linoleum sheet floor can be installed for as little as 0 84 per square foot and run up to 1 36 a square foot. If you want to install lv flooring in both you ll have to remove the underlayment in the kitchen or add some to the dining room.

You can generally save yourself a bit of money and you can ensure that the floor below is prepared or preserved to your standards. Planks and tiles run a little more 1 85 3. Cost to install vinyl flooring. Use a heavy duty scraper to remove the old vinyl image 2.