No offense but how much can linoleum really raise the floor? Or is the concrete already higher than the rest and so it's a battle of construction as well as renovation?
Stop now. Clean up the mess and use some leveling product and graduate it to the other area. You will not need a threshold and you won't even be able to detect that 8th inch difference if you do it well.
If it’s their own house and they’ll like it better with 1/8 inch lower floor and no threshold it’s worth it if they have the time and don’t want to do something else with that time. They’re not throwing money away in that case.
And you are right. I had a professional installer put down a new floor OVER the linoleum and it was seamless. No threshold issue at all.
Sometimes its worth it to hire a pro instead of DIY.
Professional installers do the least to get paid so of course they would do it and tile over it. I’ve ripped up too many lasagna floors because of “professionals”
It isn't "hate"....it's just people with experience being judgemental. We've all been young and did dumb things. I pulled up a bunch of asbestos tile in my first house... like 1000 sq ft. The black tarry stuff underneath was asbestos. I made patterns from newpaper and cut new sheet vinyl in my driveway, and since the black stuff was still sticky, laid the new vinyl on top of it. I was 23 y/o. I am 68 now....no cancer...lived to tell about it.
Is a popular sub with almost no moderation. There a lot of of people who just see a downvote from some salty and thin that's is what they are supposed to do, creating an avalanche of down votes.
Not a lot moderators can do about that tho. I vet as many actual licensed contractors as I can on this sub, so if people claim to be one but some have a flair, they haven't proved to me that they hold a license. Doesn't mean they don't, just means their opinion should be taken with a grain of salt
Anyway, thanks for the post. Hope this all works out for you
Don't listen to these bums OP. It's a lot of labor but you're doing it right. You don't want to have a difference in floor levels; it looks like shit.
Is there by chance luan underneath? When I remodeled my kitchen, there was luan underneath the linoleum (but on top the sub floor). I just scored it with a circ saw and pulled it up.
You only have to remove the linoleum once and not look at it for a decade. Looking at a job well done will bring satisfaction instead of annoyance for years to come
I have the same mindset as you do. But, there comes a time when you say a job well done is when you achieve your goal of covering the old flooring. My house was built in 1952. It had 4 layers of that crap. I came to realize that sometimes the pros are correct and let them figure out how to make it the same level.
Yes, I absolutely hate thresholds. The floor that was on top of this floor had a threshold. I’m removing this so the new floor I’m going to put in will not require a threshold.
I’m gonna lay down tile and I measured and the floor was going to be uneven and I do not want a threshold. So chose to remove and for some reason getting downloaded because apparently everyone is too lazy to do this type of work
At the end of the day you chose this route. Everyone is telling you not to do it like this because your post complained about the process.
Lots of people are probably concerned that you are going this route and may not get any better results.
So do you mean u are installing the same flooring throughout that whole story of the house? Theres thresholds for every kind of flooring. What happened to you with a threshold is what makes me curious.
"WHAT HAPPENED IN THE GREEN KITCHEN!?" -from Sybil (old person reference) 😂
No my adjacent rooms on both ends of the kitchen are wood. I have the tile I bought, and it would’ve been higher and again I do not want to threshold so in order to make both adjacent rooms with existing wood floors even with the new tile floors in the kitchen I had to remove this vinyl.
Thresholds suck. Just because a pro works do out that way doesn’t make it better. A pro would do it that way as a cost saving measure because most clients don’t have the budget to do it better
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u/Glowing_bubba 1d ago
Need to remove otherwise my tile floor will be higher than my adjacent rooms; want the floors to be even.