I stopped by Home Depot to pick up some supplies to repair my parquet floor. The floor assistant talked me into buying a foam underlay. However, once I started removing the damaged tiles, it became evident that if I use foam the tiles will not be even because of the layer of old adhesive. I suppose I'll have to scrape off the adhesive in any case, but it still doesn't make sense to me how a small patch of foam is going to hold a tile in place even with fresh adhesive. I live on the 25th Floor of a condo and the original flooring does not have a foam base. It actually just looks like plaster, so now I'm apprehensive about scraping off the old adhesive and throwing off the levelling of the floor. The original tiles are beautiful, but I need to replace an area of about 30-40 damaged pieces. Any suggestions? Thanks
Necessity of foam underlay
- Thread starter CharlieHorse
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Parquet floor is traditionally attached to the concrete underneath with bitumen the foam stuff you have is for laminate flooring.
Great! I have the bitumen...I'll return the foam. I knew something wasn't right. Would you recommend scraping off the old bitumen, or just layering fresh bitumen on top of it?
I would imagine if you put the new on top of the old you may not get it to sit level unless the new pieces are thinner than the old. So you will have to at least scrape some of the old bitumen off first to leave clearance for the new.
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