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LVP on Manufactured Home Marriage Line
I am tearing out the carpet in my living room and a bedroom in a doublewide mobile home. I have 2 disabled adults in wheelchairs, one of the chairs being a power chair that weighs between 500 & 600 pounds.
For reference, the wood subfloor is living room. I am placing LVP in this room. The linoleum is in the kitchen and hallway. I am not replacing these. The photo with the carpet that meets the linoleum is the bedroom I will be installing LVP in and I haven’t pulled the carpet up yet.
Question #1: All LVP in my house has stopped and I’m left with problems I don’t know how to fix and we are stuck in a mess. My biggest problem right now is the marriage line between the kitchen and living room. The brown floor in the pic is the linoleum in the kitchen. I have found that some of the wood subflooring in the living room is higher than the linoleum in the kitchen and some of it is lower. This is causing dips and humps in the LVP. I noticed this when I laid the transition piece down to try to lay out what I was doing before I got started. It caused some of the planks to be lifted off of the floor while the others laid flat. I’m not sure what to do since this is directly on a marriage line and there are some humps on each side.
Question #2: What transition should I use between the living room (Which i will be installing the plank in) and the kitchen? This normally doesn’t seem like it would be difficult but there is a marriage line with a gap between 1/4″ & 1/2″ wide right where the transition will happen, it seems to me that I would need a transition that “T’d” into the marriage line and acted as a ramp toward the kitchen but I’m having difficulty finding what i have in my mind. Notice the bedroom door and most transitions I can find would stick out.
Question #3: What sort of trim do I use around the hearth of my fireplace since it is not a flat surface?
Question #4: I’m keeping the carpet in the master bedroom, should I put the transition in the middle of the door jambs, the outer edge or the inner edge of the door jamb?
& Finally, Question #4: the transition from the hallway to the bedroom is also causing me confusion, the marriage line runs right across the outer edge of the doorjamb, and the linoleum in the hallway ends at that marriage line. Where should I put the transition here and will the marriage line have an affect? I also think this should be some sort of a ramping transition as this is the room where my sons heavy wheelchair will be coming and going.
I know this is confusing and I’ve tried to find a way to make it make sense. I have attached pictures and hope they help. Let me know if you need anything else.
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Yes, those are the only 2 rooms we planned to replace. I was very worried about doing this myself. I even had a contractor here and he told me this was all fine and doable, we can do it, and didn’t tell me what you’re telling me, which makes a lot of sense. I didn’t trust him and I’m glad I didn’t.
Yes, I have $3,000 invested in just the floor. But if it’s not a good idea, I’ll have to figure a way around it. Here’s the flooring.
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What exactly will happen if we use this with the heavy wheelchair? IF we were to move forward with this, how would we address the problems mentioned in the 1st post?
If we decided not to move forward with this floor, we would need a glue down, correct? How would we address the problems in the 1st post if we went another way? Mainly the major floor problem with both sides of the marriage line being wavy? We are on hold and the whole project has stopped.
Thanks for answering and helping us!
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We got this floor from Build.com and they’re actually allowing us to return all of it minus $150 freight fee, which I’m good with.
So I would like to ask you if the following flooring would be the kind you’re talking about using? This was one of our first picks of flooring that we really liked. I have a quote right now for abt half this price and if it’s the right kind of floor, we will use this one.
Should we put padding under it?
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Raskin-Industries-Ceramix/5001601397
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Joe in addition to the question I asked above regarding whether or not this would be a good flooring choice, would this 1/4″ 4’X8′ underlayment be good to use?
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I’ve tried to edit that last post bc I posted the wrong link. The correct link is https://www.lowes.com/pd/1-4-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-Poplar-Sanded-Plywood-Underlayment/50124674
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Thank you for that Joe! We’ve ordered the loose lay flooring that was sent above, we’ve ordered our 1/4″ underlayment. 3 questions, I am having trouble finding the MT711 adhesive anywhere, but I did find this pressure sensitive adhesive at lowes, can you tell me if this will work?
And, on the marriage line, between the kitchen and living room, do we put underlayment over that marriage line on top of the kitchen floor? If so would we staple it on the kitchen side? How far would you recommend bringing onto the kitchen side?
And right now i have the carpet cut even with the outside of the master bedroom, would I want to go in side the door jambs to put my transition in the middle of the jambs?
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Hi Joe, we have been waiting for the flooring and subfloor to arrive. Sorry, I know this is a dumb question but I haven’t done this before. Today, the subfloor arrived and it’s wet in some places and warped. Should I make them take it back or wait until it dries out and try to straighten it out with staples when we put it down.
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If it was wet I would send it back.
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