Floating Laminate Floor Over Carpet. If desired you can even add optional ramped borders and corners to create a finished clean edge. Laminate flooring is a floating floor What this means for installing one laminate flooring over another is that you essentially have two floating floors.
Put simply carpet underlayment is too thick. What you can do instead. Then remove any existing nails screws and staples from the laminate flooring if there are any.
Carpet over laminate flooring How Laminate Flooring is Installed.
You may be able to successfully install your laminate floor over carpeting as long as it is less than one-quarter inch thick is set on suspended wood sub-floor and is. If you have a low profile carpet such as berber you can lay the laminate flooring right on top. This video is about how to install laminate floor transition to carpet. Floating floorboards are designed to stay in place through their tongue-and-groove or click-and-lock construction designs that facilitate interlocking between adjacent planks.
