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We are renovating a home that we recently bought and are on a strict budget. The kitchen floor currently has worn vinyl. We are thinking of replacing new vinyl because the kitchen is a good size 14 x 25. The company wants to put down a subfloor which will build the floor up more. The floor is even and I'm sure there is a sub floor already under the current vinyl. The house was built in 1978 and I would be that they have had the vinyl replaced at least one during the time. Is this normal to put down another sub floor?
I worked as a resident manager for an owner of an old apartment building (converted to apartments in the 1920's) in Silicon Valley. He just put vinyl over vinyl. It was never a problem. And if he had to replace the top vinyl, he just pulled up that layer and put a new layer down over the old vinyl again - or linoleum.
One reason to do it in an older building, too, is that there might be asbestos under there. Best not to stir that up.
Most sheet vinyl flooring back then was "full contact"- meaning it was glued all over.
Today's vinyl only requires "perimeter gluing". So, installing a new sheet vinyl over the old would really only require embossing filler- a new subfloor would not be required in my opinion.
I recently did vinyl over vinyl. All the major flooring stores wanted to rip up the old and put in new subfloor. I finally found a small local flooring store that agreed to go over the old and it's fine.
I also did vinyl tiles over sheet vinyl by myself. I used an embossing leveler to fill in the nooks and crannies of the old vinyl. I used grout-able tiles and most people can't tell its vinyl. Came out great and has held up for over five years.
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