Hi,
I have just stipped out our old kitchen in our 1960's bungalow. The floor is floorboards all through the house, the kitchen is the same although the old pantry area has a quarry tile?? not sure if this is on top on the old floor boards or not? Anyway, they have installed ply to the walway area to the kitchen as lino was sitting on top, but under the old units the floorboards are still on show. I have bought kitchen suitable laminate floor, but have no idea to use as underlay. Its a floating floor I think as the house has air bricks all around it and I felt the air under the floor in the hallway as their is a brocken/rotten floorboard.
Please help, do I need a waterproof membrane? I will only lay floor to just under the kickboards so this will mean the laminate will be sitting over the ply mostly.
I have just stipped out our old kitchen in our 1960's bungalow. The floor is floorboards all through the house, the kitchen is the same although the old pantry area has a quarry tile?? not sure if this is on top on the old floor boards or not? Anyway, they have installed ply to the walway area to the kitchen as lino was sitting on top, but under the old units the floorboards are still on show. I have bought kitchen suitable laminate floor, but have no idea to use as underlay. Its a floating floor I think as the house has air bricks all around it and I felt the air under the floor in the hallway as their is a brocken/rotten floorboard.
Please help, do I need a waterproof membrane? I will only lay floor to just under the kickboards so this will mean the laminate will be sitting over the ply mostly.