Sheet Vinyl Over Particle Board
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Sheet vinyl over particle board. 3 4 in x 2 ft x 12 ft industrial particle board. Such as sheet vinyl or laminate. Sheet vinyl flooring provides a durable surface for high traffic areas in your home. In most cases 4 by 8 foot sheets of particle board or plywood must be installed in preparation for the vinyl floor install.
You can use the particle board as the subfloor beneath vinyl tile and have a lasting stylish floor. Replacing a subfloor that is made of particle board is expensive and time consuming but the alternative might be a floor that weakens over time due to water damage. Vinyl sheeting is recommended instead for installation over particleboard. Particleboard is an inexpensive smooth and easy to install underlayment frequently placed beneath vinyl floors.
Before you install sheet vinyl the subfloor must be in good. How to prepare a subfloor for vinyl flooring. Particle board has some pros that make it seem like a good option for underlayment but the cons outweigh the pros in basically every situation. Vinyl flooring is usually not installed directly over the subfloor in residential applications.
Another pro of particle board is its smooth soft surface. Vinyl tiles need a very smooth level. Unlike sheet vinyl flooring luxury vinyl tile comes in planks like real wood flooring and has a near identical appearance and texture to traditional hardwood and engineered flooring. While plywood underlayment runs 35 a sheet.
Most flooring vinyl flooring manufacturers do not allow direct glue down directly to the subfloor. Luxury vinyl tile is the newest floating floor option that has dramatically grown in both popularity and appreciation over the last several years. Installing a glue down vinyl floor sheet or tile directly over oriented strand board osb subflooring has become a hot topic for me of lately i have had people asking about installing sheet lvt and vct directly to the osb subfloor without the use of an underlayment.