Hello
I am remodelling the bathroom and the flooring needs to be redone.
At the moment, the flooring is orginal floorboards covered with 3mm hardboard (smooth surface), then cork tiles, then vinyl tiles on the very top.
I am removing the vinyl tiles, and as I do so some of the cork tiles underneath also come away from the hardboard.
I am wondering if I need to be careful to keep the cork "underlay" (?) in place, so that there is a substrate for my new vinyl tiles, or whether I should get rid of the whoel lot and just put the new vinyl tiles straight onto the hardboard. This is for a bathroom.
I dont know if one would usually use cork as an underlay for vinyl tiles or if it is just that the previous owners of the property were too lazy to remove the cork themselves before installing the vinyl tiles?
Or does it not really matter one way or the other?
Many thanks
Tom
I am remodelling the bathroom and the flooring needs to be redone.
At the moment, the flooring is orginal floorboards covered with 3mm hardboard (smooth surface), then cork tiles, then vinyl tiles on the very top.
I am removing the vinyl tiles, and as I do so some of the cork tiles underneath also come away from the hardboard.
I am wondering if I need to be careful to keep the cork "underlay" (?) in place, so that there is a substrate for my new vinyl tiles, or whether I should get rid of the whoel lot and just put the new vinyl tiles straight onto the hardboard. This is for a bathroom.
I dont know if one would usually use cork as an underlay for vinyl tiles or if it is just that the previous owners of the property were too lazy to remove the cork themselves before installing the vinyl tiles?
Or does it not really matter one way or the other?
Many thanks
Tom
