Can I lay laminate floors OVER my existing tile floor?
Posted on August 3rd, 2009 by admin
Asbestos
I recently bought a house and am wanting to redo the basement floors. The problem is my house was built in 1949 and I was told that there is most likely asbestos underneath the tile. I don’t want to deal with removing the possible asbestos so I was curious if I could just cover the tiles with a laminate floor. I asked someone at Home Depot and they said that I could cover it with carpet (although their stores wouldn’t do it) but I was curious about laminate.
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I recently bought a house and am wanting to redo the basement floors. The problem is my house was built in 1949 and I was told that there is most likely asbestos underneath the tile. I don’t want to deal with removing the possible asbestos so I was curious if I could just cover the tiles with a laminate floor. I asked someone at Home Depot and they said that I could cover it with carpet (although their stores wouldn’t do it) but I was curious about laminate.
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Assuming this is VCT or vinyl tile.You will be perfectly fine in doing so.
Laying this over ceramic tile would not be a good idea.
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I think you can. We covered some 9″tile with carpeting a while ago, and I help my son put a new floor over old tile… it was wood laminate (the new stuff)…
The only thing I would worry about is water if your basement leaks. That’s a whole different question tho.
take a var thane and coat the floor to seal it. Then I would put the foam and then the laminated floor. More then likely the tile has asbestos in it, because back then they made tile that had asbestos.
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I did it in my kitchen. Well, not me personally. Professional installers did it. They just laid down a liner type thing and put the laminate right on top. That was three years ago and I haven’t had any trouble with it at all.