Can you lay and pull and stick over the glue tile flooring
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Sweet Laura
When we built our home we needed to build the same tupe for 14 others to keep the cost down. In doing so all the finishings had to be the same, just theh color cou be different. The floos are the glue on type and are popping up in places. Can we lay the pull and stick type floorig over it or do do we have to pull up those squared tiles first?
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It would not be a great idea to install a new floor over a substrate that is coming apart. Your new floor will bond to something that is falling apart.
Your New peel and stick would be applied to existing tiles - not the wood subfloor so if those original tiles lift it’s going to take your new tiles with it. A possibility would be to lay another subfloor on top of what you have, screw it down then start fresh. Pros: faster, easier. Cons: it affects molding, outlet spacing - if your new subfloor is 1/4 inch that means that much if your molding would be covered or removed etc. You can find products on the market to loosen glue to remove those existing tiles but you can’t get away from the labor required.
Thanks for the quick response and smart answer. It’s great!!