Gluing New Vinyl To Old Vinyl

By having too soft of a sub floor your new vinyl floor will wear faster leave lasting dimples from furniture and ultimately will crack the vinyl.

Gluing new vinyl to old vinyl.

Scrub your vinyl floor with a solution of 3 tablespoons of a good degreasing agent such as trisodium phosphate or dishwashing liquid dissolved in 1 gallon of water. If it comes up easily there s too much moisture in the concrete to install a sheet vinyl floor. Cut the waste side off so you leave. Snap a chalk line across the planking to guide your knife blade as you cut lengthwise.

By applying a glue down vinyl over another vinyl your are creating a soft substrate for you new floor. Cut carefully along the lines laying your trimmed vinyl over the dash and checking for proper fit before gluing it down. Follow the instructions of your chose skim coat product and mix it with water and use a masonry trowel to spread it all over the entire floor. Applied with a straightedge trowel the embosser will create a smooth surface to support the new floor.

After 72 hours try to pull up the vinyl. Installing vinyl sheet flooring can be a very realistic do it yourself project. In some cases vinyl can be glued directly to old vinyl ceramic tile and wood floors but special fillers and glue down procedures are needed. Glue down vinyl plank flooring needs a very firm sub floor in order to adhere properly.

Lay the vinyl face down on your dashboard and trace around it with your pen. Sheet vinyl can be laid over old linoleum or vinyl flooring if the existing floor is in good condition. A thin layer of joint compound suitable for indoor use spread over the old vinyl floor will patch up any gaps or dents and the holes left by removing the broken bits of the old vinyl floor. In this video joe kistel shows us how to span two types of existing floori.

If the old floor has a rough texture or some indentations use a coat of embossing leveler.