We are doing an en-suite bathroom and looking to use rigid vinyl planks for the flooring. One of the brands Quick-step states not to screw the toilet directly to the floor but to leave an expansion gap. Our builder sayes what we can do is leave a gap around the screws to allow movement, but I've read that even fixing a cabinet to the wall causes problems so I'm confused. What can we do, can we install the toilet on top of the LVT and just leave room round the screw holes?
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Can you install a toilet on top of floating LVT
- Thread starter LadyM
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A toilet sitting on top is not going to allow movement .You have a dumb builder .
But then surely neither would a bed or a sofa. One of the brands we were looking at allows 115kg to sit on top but not if it's fixed.
Click LVT notoriously fails when you put heavy furniture on it, even if the subfloor is perfectly prepared. The weight often stops the floor moving and the weak plastic joints break. Much better to go with glue down LVT as you have to prep the subfloor to the same standards in reality for the click LVT.
If you MUST have a floating floor, I'd put quality Laminate down instead of click LVT, it's far more resilient.
If you MUST have a floating floor, I'd put quality Laminate down instead of click LVT, it's far more resilient.
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