Laminate glued down, can I carpet over ?

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I've been thinking for a while about getting a rug to replace an area of floor in my new home where the laminate has been very badly scratched by a dropped door. Now I'm planning to get a greyhound and have read they can slip a lot on laminate , so would need lots of rugs , and I think it would look a mess. And looking at the floor, it's really very scratched all over (I think it's bamboo laminate they glued onto concrete )

No easy way of lifting. Can I carpet over ? I'd take off the doors (it's a hallway living room and study), and get them planed to go back on.

Other thing to add is that I have a touch of arthritis in my feet and I have to wear supportive slippers all the time so maybe carpet would help that too.

Yes don't see why not. They will fit carpet gripper at the edges to hold it in place.
Good luck with dog I have heard they are lovely pets

In theory you can but you’ll still need underlay and so you’ll be raising the floor height quite a bit.

Yes you can

Yes we did in our previous flat. No problem at all.

I think it would cost too much to lift the laminate as it will basically need to be chiselled up.
I think they said they had glued it to concrete !!

I'm worried it might get damp though.

Ok I might get some fitters out to have a look then . I wasn't really planning to spend out on carpet but I think it will look so much better than scratched laminate and lots of rugs .

Now I need to look into carpet to have with dogs!

Carpet is definitely better for dogs, I've got laminate with rugs and runners and it looks a mess. Think vinyl is meant to be better for dogs then laminate so am looking into that.

Can you ask a local damp treatment company to do a survey of the flooring and get their advice before you decide? My house was laid to laminate all through the ground floor and I hated it (especially so because it really showed all the cat hairs!) but it was laid over a sub floor so I took the lot up (fortunately not glued down).

Changing flooring can be expensive to get right and my carpet layers were reluctant to give that kind of advice; all they said was that the floor needed to be flat and stable (because I was also buying vinyl for part of the same floor).

What about getting the professionals to have a look first? Or at least make some calls to see if they will advise over the phone?

Excitingly I just found an edge in the living room that came up easily, so it seems that room might be ok, snd that's the biggest space . Think it's s worth a try trying to lift and might do it with the handyman when I get him to help me with some other jobs.

Question is , do I decorate , lift then carpet. It might take me weeks to decorate so don't want shitty floor all that time. So I could decorate walls, lift, do skirting, carpet ?

I guess it depends what kind of decoration you're having on the walls; paint or wall paper. And whether you want to hide any cables when you replace the flooring.

You could lift the floor and just lay the rugs down over the concrete for a while whilst you get on with the decor? I might do that if it were me, we're getting into warmer weather so might not be or feel too cold.

By the way. I am by no means an expert in anything. I've made more mistakes in sequencing this kind of work than I care to say!

But I can say, after years of trendy floor boards, having a lovely thick underlay and wool carpet is so lovely; the house is warmer and more cosy and feels so much more homely.

DD has just woken and had a hissy fit about beige carpet!

I've also realised I'd need to relay floor in the cloakroom as the laminate goes through from the hall .

But I can't find a rugs solution as the hall is not straight so unless it's carpeted it would need two runners which would look a bit crap.

Would love wool carpet but practicality with a dog and budget won't allow !

Carpet, even with underlay and fitting will probably end up cheaper than loads of rugs. We've got no carpet at all in our house and so rugs everywhere and it's cost an absolute fortune.