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Avoid click LVT, it's an absolute disaster of a product and wont perform anything like glue down LVT. The joints are notorious for breaking, even with correct subfloor prep, we even had one manufacturer not uphold their warranty for a customer because a washing machine had been put on the floor...

As Dazlight has say's, don't do it. It's not hard to uplift the existing lvt, warm it up with a heat gun, peel it up and re-screed the subfloor. If you try fitting over what you have directly it won't bond and the design of the old floor will show through. It won't be hard to get the old LVT up.

The hairline cracks arent too much to worry about, but that screed blowing out like that would suggest very high moisture levels?

Were the hydrometer box readings taken on the screed or under the units?

It's a tricky one, the NA is all moisture tolerant and a very good screed when applied correctly. Likewise Laminate floated on a underlay with DPM and tape does have an element of moisture tolerance to it as well. 'by the book' would be to take up what you can, re-dpm, NA properly all at quite...

Chicken wire.

Can you get a spade under them?

You'll need to uplift the flooring back to where you can access to reinstate the new pieces and re-fit.

Best way to resolve that are Stairrods Easy Shims to ramp the carpet up and then a standard or premier finish metal Z edge lipped over the tile.

You can only put liquid DPM down over a moisture tolerant latex screed, it’s not suitable over a water based self leveller.

This sounds like a project a little too far as the floor needs moisture testing and then the screed levels need looking at closely to understand how deep the levelling needs to be and what primers to use and how to manipulate and build up as and if required. The LVT will only be as good as the...

Where the shape is different, has the subfloor ply/hardboard been cut to shape as well as the top Vinyl ?

Universal Ally Ramps will do the job but will look like what they are, cheap! Have a look at CAT profiles or possibly Gripperods Premium range, they may be a bit cheaper than Stairrods UK

Stairrods UK 12mm Ramp profile would be perfect, available in Chrome, Bushed Chrome, Satin Nickel, Pewter or various gold finishes and Black.

Once you encapsulate the UFH as described above, do you have the TOG rating of the UFH system? Ideally you shouldn’t overload the UFH system and it should have a TOG rating that the underlay and Laminate flooring should not exceed combined. The best UFH underlay for Laminate and wood floors...