HELP - subfloor for vinyl

[clemsonfor]

Real brown pegboard with holes.

The guy does good work, but he tried three times to talk me out of having it glued down. When he did glue it doen he put down a good coating.

They free floated or whatever they call it when they installed my vynal floor. I liked the idea, makes removing it easy as i will do it next time and i have a template to work from!!! It "tapped" for a few weeks till it layed down, kind of similar to the sound that it makes when you walk on that floating fake hardwood but not as bad. Just has a sound that you were making as you walked across it, not really like the fake hardwood sound its hard to dexcribe? ANYWAY its been 4 years or more and there is no way you would know one way or the other. It lays tight to the floor does not sound funny when you walk or anything. The only way you know is if you take the shop vac to suck something up and stick it to the floor it will pull it up ever so slightly before the vac lets go, and i mean just a tiny bit. It will fall flat and not leave anything to let you know its not flat against the floor though. I actaully am glad i went glueless, cause like i said when/if we change i have a template to use if i decide to do it next time, or the company that does it has one!

 

[newbury]

If I was using pegboard as underlayment I wouldn't glue it down either...

Closer reading of the thread should reveal that he switched out luan for the pegboard.

Well if I could kill the thread I would.

BUT

After a spirited phone call the contractor showed up with luan which is recommended by Armstrong.

He's a good contractor, but I think he was just trying to cut corners. This is one of those "friend" of my son's deal with a really low price. He's not making his usual $$ on the floor but does an excellent job.