Help with new floor (vinyl planks)
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 10:02 pm
My husband and I are getting ready to lay down new flooring in our manufactured home. We purchased it used and have been remodeling it. We're finally done with everything and ready to redo the floors.. We're now pulling up the very ugly carpet in the livingroom and dining room, and will be laying vinyl planks in both those rooms plus the kitchen and breakfast nook, which are all open rooms, so a continuous floor plan. The kitchen and breakfast nook have vinyl flooring right now.
The vinyl planks we're using are from Lowes, are 4" wide by 36" long and are the peel and stick kind. We also purchased Henry's floor primer to make sure we get a good seal..
Here's our question. After pulling up the carpet in the dining room, we've discovered that there's a slight gap (about 1/8") where the house meets in the center.. The sub flooring is OSB board.. The two sides do appear to be pretty level.. We still have carpet to pull up in the livingroom, but when we pulled it up to look at it, it does appear level...
But we aren't sure what to do about this slight gap between the two sections.. do we need to fill it in with something before laying the planks or do we just start laying the planks along that seam, covering the gap, and work outward from there? If we need to fill it in, how do we do that and what kind of product do we need to buy? Also, has anyone else used this type of peel and stick vinyl planks over OSB subflooring? As long as we use the Henry's floor primer, is there anything else we need to do before laying the planks?
Thanks for any help you can give us..
We're older DIY'ers (upper 50's and 60's), and selected this type of flooring after a lot of research... it sounds like this will be the easiest floor for us to do ourselfs...![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)
The vinyl planks we're using are from Lowes, are 4" wide by 36" long and are the peel and stick kind. We also purchased Henry's floor primer to make sure we get a good seal..
Here's our question. After pulling up the carpet in the dining room, we've discovered that there's a slight gap (about 1/8") where the house meets in the center.. The sub flooring is OSB board.. The two sides do appear to be pretty level.. We still have carpet to pull up in the livingroom, but when we pulled it up to look at it, it does appear level...
But we aren't sure what to do about this slight gap between the two sections.. do we need to fill it in with something before laying the planks or do we just start laying the planks along that seam, covering the gap, and work outward from there? If we need to fill it in, how do we do that and what kind of product do we need to buy? Also, has anyone else used this type of peel and stick vinyl planks over OSB subflooring? As long as we use the Henry's floor primer, is there anything else we need to do before laying the planks?
Thanks for any help you can give us..
We're older DIY'ers (upper 50's and 60's), and selected this type of flooring after a lot of research... it sounds like this will be the easiest floor for us to do ourselfs...
![Wink :wink:](./images/smilies/icon_wink.gif)