carpet on laminate floor?

Anyone know the pros and cons or special considerations for laying a carpet in a room that has laminate flooring? I want to make our living room more cosy.

 

I you will have to remove the laminate flooring first.

 

Maybe best to remove the laminate and leave the fibre board underlay underneath . Presume the carpet for a lounge will have its own dunlopillo type underlay first then carpet . This will let your flooring breathe , without the laminate. Could be a tad over cautious , but ripping laminate up is only an hour off a job .

 

Why do I need to remove the laminate? Can I not just lay the carpet over it?

 

This will let your flooring breathe , without the laminate. Could be a tad over cautious , but ripping laminate up is only an hour off a job .

 

Wont the carpet kind of slip under foot because of the slippy laminate underneath ? It might crease despite fitting gripper strips around the edges ? Im probably completely wrong

 

Just a thought . Get yourself down to the local auctions and pick upa few rugs or one biggie. Can be cheap,nice and a crackin buy and will take the echo out of the room and make it cosier. Then lift in the hot summer time. Genius I know lol.

 

I'd take the laminate up as well. The carpet will eventually stretch with foot fall pressure on a slippery surface. There is also the possibility that the laminate flooring will start to squeak or creak with age, so the carpet will have to be taken up to sort that problem.

Why create yourself more work in the future by cutting corners now. As the lads have said it will only take an hour to remove the laminate. Repairing things in the future will take a lot longer, it always does.

 

We have laminate flooring has its easier has we've got 3 dogs, its easier to clean, but I do hate it would sooner have a carpet fitted
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Thanks for all the ideas and advice.

I think I'm going to bin off the full carpet idea. Laminate definitely has its benefits when you've got messy kids

Also, the dining table is in the lounge, so food spillages happen. Laminate is easy to clean.

But I still want a carpet. Currently we have three small rugs that we use in rotation. One is out, the other two on standby ready to swap in when the one that's out needs a clean.

I think I'll stick with that plan, but phase in much larger rugs that arebig enough to fill half the room.

 

A bit late, I know, but this may help others.

I would lay the carpet directly on top of the laminate myself as I have prior experience and it saves me from the hassle of disposing of the mountain of laminate strips.

The reason why you would not is because most laminate flooring is laid as a "floating" floor to allow for movement - there are gaps along the wall edges, sometimes hidden by beading, to allow for expansion and contraction due to temperature fluctuations.

Having laminate as underlay makes it more difficult to nail the carpet gripper strips securely in place and also means that you would have to trim doors that open onto the carpet.

 

There you go Dave , a full set off Gardeners Corner answers - Yes , No and Maybe !

 

For what it's worth, I'm in the middle of a full house renovation and I've gone for a laminate route across the whole downstairs. But to avoid the 'cold' feel and slippiness of laminate, especially for my two dogs, I'm having a large rug in the living room with an anti-slide, erm, thingy underneath. I think it will give the best of both worlds - or that's the plan! So it sounds like you're doing the same sort of thing, and perhaps increasing the rug size as you suggest would be the most straightforward option.