dreram
Jul 13, 2013, 08:10 AM
We replaced carpet on our living room with laminate flooring. Our living room is continuous with the dining room which has laminate flooring. The laminate flooring stayed, and we wanted to extend the laminate flooring to about 2 feet into the dining hall.
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Living room floor dining room floor
In the picture , the left side is the living room with the carpet removed and the right side is the dining room with the existing laminate flooring. As you can see, there is a little bit of a height difference. The plus sign indicates the point to which we want to extend the laminate flooring, there by making the living room a bit longer in width.
As you can see, there is a height difference between the base flooring on the left and the vinyl flooring on the right. To cover this, we graded the living room floor adjacent to the dining hall with a couple layers of foam, but only on the dining hall. There were No problems on the right side ( dining room side) as the laminate was directly on the hard vinyl surfce.But on the living room side, this proved to be a mistake since there is 'give' in the floor now, and I can see that when we step on the flooring just by the boundary between the living room and dining room ( marked by a " . " ), there is a little bit of a 'give', and the joints on a couple of the planks are breaking.
So my question is how do I correct this? Is there a thin sheet material that can be used underneath the laminate to prevent this give? I was thinking of roof shingles to just insert on top of the existing foam but just beneath the laminate flooring. Would shingles be a good idea or is there any other material similar to this? The thickness of the material should be only just about the thickness of the shingles...
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Living room floor dining room floor
In the picture , the left side is the living room with the carpet removed and the right side is the dining room with the existing laminate flooring. As you can see, there is a little bit of a height difference. The plus sign indicates the point to which we want to extend the laminate flooring, there by making the living room a bit longer in width.
As you can see, there is a height difference between the base flooring on the left and the vinyl flooring on the right. To cover this, we graded the living room floor adjacent to the dining hall with a couple layers of foam, but only on the dining hall. There were No problems on the right side ( dining room side) as the laminate was directly on the hard vinyl surfce.But on the living room side, this proved to be a mistake since there is 'give' in the floor now, and I can see that when we step on the flooring just by the boundary between the living room and dining room ( marked by a " . " ), there is a little bit of a 'give', and the joints on a couple of the planks are breaking.
So my question is how do I correct this? Is there a thin sheet material that can be used underneath the laminate to prevent this give? I was thinking of roof shingles to just insert on top of the existing foam but just beneath the laminate flooring. Would shingles be a good idea or is there any other material similar to this? The thickness of the material should be only just about the thickness of the shingles...