Wood laminate flooring directly over the carpet.
Floating floor over carpet.
Hi elain thanks for the question.
However there are some scenarios where a floating floor is not the best option.
Here s a link to a success story over fluffy carpet if you d like to try it.
Before you worry about how to install carpet tiles over carpet you should know that there are two ways to do this.
A rug over carpet.
It sounds like the flooring is adding too much cushion and compromising the flooring joints with the noise.
We didn t know enough about our future to justify the time and expense.
The only way would be to uninstall the flooring and remove the carpet and add a proper underlayment.
Armorlock plates these plates act as a mechanical floating floor.
Vinyl planks vinyl planks are designed to resemble hardwood and can be found in a number of wood look textures such as hand scraped wirebrushed and distressed.
Floating floors are not for every installation or everyone floating floors can solve a host of issues like not having to remove asbestos flooring and floating a floor right over it.
Here s an overview of the two methods.
Well actually there are three but one of them involves straight carpet on carpet which is never a good idea.