How Do You Prepare A Concrete Floor For Vinyl Planks

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How do you prepare a concrete floor for vinyl planks. Heres step-by-step guide to help you prep a concrete subfloor for luxury vinyl. If you are planning to install vinyl tile on a concrete floor the concrete will need to be prepared correctly or the tile will not correctly adhere to the floor. Undercutting the doorjambs and casing helps you slide the vinyl plank flooring underneath.

Although the flooring comes in a variety of forms planks are. Vinyl is flexible so just no real drastic changes. Use a straight edge and mark high and low spots.

Do not sand vinyl flooring it may contain asbestos. Test the moisture content of your concrete subfloor. The gaps between the wall and the flooring should be ¼ in.

Prep your subfloor so that it is clean dry and level within 316-inch change per 10 feet. You can do this with a moisture meter ensuring that your reading is no more than three-pounds per 1000 square feet per 24 hours. Weve used it for both.

Use a scrap piece of plank as a guide for the proper height. Tape a 3-foot-square piece of scrap vinyl to the concrete with duct tape sealing the edges tight. You can use a small pull saw or oscillating multi-tool.

Jigsaw with fine tooth blade. Leave the vinyl in place for 72 hours. It also fits over most surfaces including concrete.