Can I Lay Solid Wood Flooring With Polymer Adhesive Over Lino That Is Securely Stuck To The Floor?

[BasketCase]

The advice for laying the solid wood flooring is to put adhesive down on the floor and lay on top of that. When we took up the carpet there is hessian-backed lino securely stuck to the floor which will be a nightmare to get up. Can we put the polymer adhesive on the lino and lay on that?

Can anyone advise.

Thanks

[woofgang]

our solid wood floor is laid on special underlay and nailed not glued.

[Clanad]

At least here in the U.S., I'm not aware of using adhesive to lay solid wood flooring. It's laid on top of a good, solid under flooring, that's been covered with a vapor barrier... we use red felt that has a high permeability rating but still provides a good barrier. Other's use a low permeability rated product.

The fact is though, with true hardwood flooring (most is at least 3/4 inches thick tongue and groove) the nailing is the most important part of the install.

A "made-for-the-job" pneumatic nailer is required and most of them today use a special 2" to 2 1/2" staple affair for the nailing.

Short answer is it's Ok to install over the linoleum as long as the subfloor is adequate... Good luck!

[The Builder]

Clanad might be interested to know that solid HW flooring is often glued down, but usually over a sand & cement screed.

Over lino is a difficult call to make. I don't think any professional floor layer would chance it because of the possible, and expensive, comebacks.
If you're confident that the lino is really secure, then you may well get away with it. The odds are in your favour, but it's still a risk of areas "jumping up" in the future.

If you have a timber floor under the lino, then think about nailing right through the lino using a proper nailer....... either pneumatic, as Clanad says, or the type that carries a clip of nails, and has a knob that you hit with a mallet.

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[Sipowicz]

There are a few knobs I'd like to hit with a mallet!

[The Builder]

Surely not on AB, Sippo? ;o)

[carrust]

You could board out the floor with 6mm ply, screwing @ 6" centres, then stick your floor to that.