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Replumb house with laminate floors

  • 21-05-2017 2:45pm
    #1
    Levitate
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    Hi

    Was considering re plumbing my house and putting in new central heating system in the next coupe of years.

    I have laminate flooring down in some of the rooms downstairs, would these be a major obstacle to carrying out this work, is it possible that these would have to be ripped up or should it be relatively straightforward to take up and relay (concrete floors).

    Thanks


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Levitate wrote: »
    Hi

    Was considering re plumbing my house and putting in new central heating system in the next coupe of years.

    I have laminate flooring down in some of the rooms downstairs, would these be a major obstacle to carrying out this work, is it possible that these would have to be ripped up or should it be relatively straightforward to take up and relay (concrete floors).

    Thanks

    You could think about surface run pipe work, 99% of the installations I did for British Gas was surface using copper pipe and solder fittings, when done properly it's not the eyesore you might think, we purposely wouldn't put pipework in concrete unless there was no choice due to the problems associated with buried pipework.


  • #3
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,279 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Levitate wrote: »
    Hi

    Was considering re plumbing my house and putting in new central heating system in the next coupe of years.

    I have laminate flooring down in some of the rooms downstairs, would these be a major obstacle to carrying out this work, is it possible that these would have to be ripped up or should it be relatively straightforward to take up and relay (concrete floors).

    Thanks

    When laying laminate flooring it snaps into place. When you take up laminate flooring you'd usually end up breaking the snap mechanism & it won't go back properly.


  • #4
    dodzy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,225 ✭✭✭✭dodzy


    Sleeper12 wrote: »
    When laying laminate flooring it snaps into place. When you take up laminate flooring you'd usually end up breaking the snap mechanism & it won't go back properly.
    Obviously depends on type but when taking up laminate, I always find it best to uplift a full room length at a time. Doing this, and then breaking lengths down to individual boards should result in zero to very minimal damage.


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