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Personally not a big fan of 12mm thick underlay and standard gripper but it’ll do a similar job to Axfelt no probs.

His advice sounds sensible and honest re: UFH If you were to fit carpet, Uplift the old Laminate and install the new carpet on a really good underlay, I'd recommend Ulster Axfelt65 which is a Natural Felt underlay with crumb rubber support layer (which lays direct on the concrete). We find...

Click cannot be glued, it needs the same subfloor preparation as glue down to have a chance of being effective, you will need a expansion gap around the edge of all rooms covered by scotia or new skirting and doorways should have door bars. You can't pin the floor down with too much weight that...

Best option would be to carpet the room. Or install underfloor heating. Insulating a concrete Slab like that effectively through underlay alone would be a thankless task.

Glue down LVT is your best option but the subfloor needs to be tested for moisture and properly prepared before fitting. We would always recommend fitting after the Kitchen is installed then trim the end boards and kick boards of the units to fit.

Assuming the ply is moisture tolerant etc, feather edge joints and screw heads and the vinyl can be direct laid fully stuck to the ply. Cove and Capping contract safety floor and welding the joints and any seams is a highly specialised job requiring specialist equipment, there isn't really any...

Good quality Laminate manufacturers will have a specific stair nosing for their laminate product, alternatively Stairrods UK have a selection or options in their Premier nosing ranges.

It's not possible to install the underlay until the gripper is in place really and these will be spaced depending on how deep the carpet is that is being fitted, unless you were planning on laying the underlay wall to wall and expecting the fitter to cut the underlay back around the outside of...

You should'nt need any kind of DPM under the carpet unless you have a specific damp problem. Are the carpet gripper and door bars down? The fitters would normally fix each end of the underlay with some spray adhesive to keep it in place whilst they move the carpet around in the room when...

A good independent flooring company should be able to deal with that for you and tailor the preparation to your chosen new flooring.

You can't seal the join with anything, adhesive under the area of the join will hold the two pieces of vinyl close together, but it won't be water proof.

Glue down LVT will just need a trowelled LVT adhesive onto the prepared smooth, clean subfloor, we always use high temperature adhesive on our installations.

If your glueing the junkers down I’d imagine it will need to go down into 6mm Ply, chipboard doesn’t have the tensile strength for when the Junkers try’s to move.

You need a specific damp meter for measuring moisture in a concrete subfloor, not a general moisture meter, something like a protimeter or hydrometer box for a true reading. As for adhesive, we use High Temp adhesives on all our installs nowadays, Karndeans guarantee will only be valid if you...

Well worth giving the floor some time to settle, a good couple of seasons may well allow it to settle significantly. We have just done this with my parents 25 year old Pergo Laminate in their bedroom following a shower leak from the Ensuite. It's taken about a year but the boards have all...

No, you don’t use adhesive underlay with Solid wood.

Glue or secret nailing does not use underlay, you would fix directly to your Ply Preparation. Floating will require an underlay, ply prep of the floor will achieve best results then float the floor, or if boards are good, float on underlay over that. All three methods require expansion gaps...

What type of flooring are you laying in the area and how level is the concrete?

Floating LVT shouldn’t move much and shouldn’t creak etc, however, it needs lots of expansion gap around the edge and you can’t put much weight on it. It’s sold as the answer to minimise prep and speed installation over glue down but in reality, it needs the same prep as a glue down floor and...

Is this a floating LVT you had fitted or glue down?