DIY how to install glue down vinyl plank flooring 

All advice is welcome, thank you! Although I have been lucky with the flathead method, a flat bar makes a lot more sense!! Cheers from Northern Maine :)

We love this flooring type! Im going to throw some tips your way incase you officially decide on vinyl! Regardless if you choose the click lock or the glue down, vinyl floors have something called a wear layer. A wear layer is essentially the top layer of the plank - the thicker the layer the more durable it will be. This is often an overlooked component on this type of floor, hence why I’m sharing with you! If you are putting this floor in a more heavily trafficked area, your wear layer is extra important! Sometimes you will see a 6mil and 12mil wear layer floor marked at the same price. A 12mil plank literally has twice the wear layer as the 6mil, essentially making it TWICE as durable! I apologize if you already knew all this, I just want you to get the most out of the floor you choose! The home improvement world can occasionally be a slimy place and I hate seeing people overpay for lower quality products! I’m so happy you found this video helpful and I’m positive you can do this! You can always post back here (new comment, RU-vid does not give notifications on follow up comments) if you run into any issues and I will try my best to help! Also, welcome to our little channel :)

Aww thank you! I was so surprised how little there was on RU-vid for glue down vinyl planks! So…I figured after doing a few floors myself I would share what I learned! I’m so happy to hear you found it helpful! Have a wonderful weekend :)

Thank you :)

Glad it was helpful! When we did this floor there was maybe one video on glue down LVP. I’m no pro but figured I would make something to maybe help someone:)

Thank you! Cheers!

Of course! I’m glad I was able to help! If you run into any hiccups along the way feel free to comment back here and I will try my best to help you out! Good luck friend :)

I appreciate that! Happy I was able to help! Best of luck and never hesitate to reach out with more questions 😁

Best of luck with your install! Your garage will look awesome! Never hesitate to reach out with questions :)

It was so easy to install and has been holding up well in both our bathroom and kitchen! Seems to do well in high moisture areas! We are very impressed with it so far! Hope the rest of your flooring install goes smoothly! :)

Best of luck! Reach out if you have any questions! 😁

Haha I’m glad! Best of luck friend ☺️😁

Appreciate that ☺️ Glad I could help a little!

Of course! Happy I could help 😉

Happy I could help :) Good luck with your floor!

Thank you :)

Water is cheap bro

Of course! Never hesitate to reach out with questions once you are ready to install 😁

Of course! When we did this floor there weren’t many videos on glue down planks so I figured I’d make one to possibly help someone out 😊

I’m so happy you found my video helpful :) I have been working as a chainsaw carver up here in Maine, but when the weather gets too cold to carve outside I will start picking up some more DIY projects around the house again! If you run into any questions though I would be happy to help if I can! My boyfriend and I did soooo much research on flooring types before we choose to go with the glue down LVP.

Thank you 😊

This comment made my day! Thank you and I’m so happy to have helped in any way! She can definitely do it! Feel free to ask more questions if you or her come across anything you need help with 😊

It’s not my nail gun but it’s one I often borrow from my boyfriend’s mom and I LOVE it! Super easy to use and the battery lasts a very long time, like weeks with light use! I believe it’s the “Ryobi 18V ONE+ Cordless AirStrike”. You can get it at Homedepot for around $150!

Why thank you! ☺️

Haha sometime you have to use what you got! I didn’t have a cat paw at the time or many tools in general since we were brand spanking new home owners at the time of this video! 😂 For the chalk lines I couldn’t get an accurate diagonal measurement for the room due to the awkward layout with the kitchen and spiral staircase, so I measured 12 inches square off the wall in several places, pulled the line, and snapped it in a median of the measurements. Did the trick and gave us a pretty straight floor throughout!

We have a very large sectional couch on this exact floor that we move monthly for cleaning, the floor has held up well underneath but we do have thick felt pads on each of the couches legs. This floor, like most vinyl or laminate floors, is scratch resistant but definitely not scratch proof. I would definitely look into some sort of projection for the legs of the bed, but that would go with any floor you install :)

@@TayMarie23 thats exactly my plan, heavy thick felt pads, glad it's working for your situation. Thank you!

I believe it's 300-400 square feet per 1 gallon pail for the 647 PlumPro. You should be good with one pail as long as you apply evenly. Could always grab a second to have with the plan to return if not needed. Highly recommend applying with a smaller 4"-6" thin roller, the larger roller seemed to suck up a lot of the glue and made it harder to apply. It's great stuff, 2 years later and our floors are going great, not a single plank has popped up :)

We did these floors in two houses, the rental (the one in this video) and our house. The rental floors look just as good as the day we put them down! We put them over laminated flooring which some people made a stink about but they have held up great to heavy traffic! Our house we applied them directly to the plywood subfloor, since they are glued down they expand and contract with the floor. There is some gapping in the humid summer months but it's almost invisible to the naked eye, you have to be looking for them. Maybe 1/16", hairline gaps, close up around fall. Hope that answers your question!

@@TayMarie23 That’s perfect. Thanks for the quick response. I was planning to do something similar on top of my existing sheet vinyl floor. But just putting my feelers out there first.

Sounds like you have a bit of a mess on your hands! We ran into a similar issue in our bathroom. Under the sheet laminate flooring was 1/4” ply, and under the 1/4” ply was another layer of sheet laminate flooring glued down to the true sub floor. We ripped it all out, scraped the old glue, pulled out around 200 staples, and put down the new LVP planks. If it’s just a small area I’m guessing you can just reapply the planks you pulled up. Depending on the glue type used you might be able to just put the new planks down or you might have to scrape the existing glue off then apply new glue and planks. When it comes time to redo a large area it might be best to rip everything up down to the subfloor.

It’s been a year and the floor is holding up surprisingly well with our tenants! Haha and yes a cats paw would work much better, sometimes you gotta make what you have work though 😂

Hahaha I have gotten used to the spiders with all the remodeling, always were gloves these days 🤣

There are some great videos out there on proper methods where you measure the diagonal of the room and find your square straight line from that! We did not do that because of the shape of the room and where the kitchen cabinets were located made it hard to get an accurate diagonal measurement. So instead we just took several measurements off of the two walls that ran parallel with how we wanted to lay our floor. Then we took an average of those measurements and snapped our line. I hope that makes sense 😂 There are some great videos out there, just search “how to lay a floor strait” it can be any flooring type too, the methods will be pretty much the same :)

You would need to do a thin set coat of some sorts to fill the grout lines in to be flush with the tiles, otherwise you would end up with tile print indents overtime as the floor settles. If you fill in the grout then absolutely, just make sure the adhesive you get is rated for concrete/tile. I believe the Henny glue we used is rated to go over almost all floor types!

I don’t think all glues are roller compatible, if it says trowel I would probably use one :)

@@TayMarie23 I read a comment on Reddit that people find God with projects like these, I agree as this has diy project has been absolutely hell and I definitely need god to help me out.

Yes absolutely! The prep will be very similar to the prep in this video. The only thing that may be just a little harder is making sure your floor is level and flat. If there are bumps or high spots they may need to be ground down. If there are any low spots that’s a simple fix with some self leveling underlayment! What’s most important is the adhesive you choose - make sure concrete is listed as an accepted subfloor…most do so that shouldn’t be an issue:) The product we used (Henry 647 PlumPro) works great with concrete! Hope this helps!

For glue down LVP, the entire plank needs contact with glue. So yes, it’s the entire floor! Then you have the click lock LVP, those don’t require any glue and lock together. The click lock is a floating floor while the glue down is not! Hope this helps :)

You will have to double check with the specific adhesive you choose but to my knowledge tile is an acceptable subfloor as long as the tiles and the grout are in okay shape. You can’t lay VP over loose or badly cracked tiles unless they are repaired first! You would just need to skim coat the surface with some sort of thin set and fill in the grout lines so they are level with the tile. Otherwise, as the floor settles, it could potentially mold into the grout lines and look bad. But as long as you even the surface first, it should come out great! Hope this helps :)

@@TayMarie23 Thank you for your advice.

@@johnnyreeseiii8189 any time :)

We used Henry 647 Purple glue! Worked wonderful for us!

They are pretty thin. The specifications for these specific planks where “2 mm T x 6 in. W x 48 in. L, wear layer thickness is 12 mil”. I could be wrong but I believe 2mm is the thickness, I don’t know if that includes the wear layers or not…?

@@TayMarie23 thanks mine are 3mm thick

If I could afford a hardwood floor I wouldn’t hesitate to get one installed…but some of us just can’t do that, and that’s okay! I think LPV is a great alternative! People need to stop comparing it to real hardwood, because it’s not hardwood and it never will be! Don’t get me wrong there are some UGLY patterns and colors that these vinyl planks and tiles come in. There are also some very low quality products out there too! But as long as you avoid those and do a little due diligence, there are plenty of really great durable options! I think most of bad rep around vinyl plank floors came from the surge of house flippers using them almost every time. A lot of the flipper use the worst of the worst, so it has dragged down lots of people’s opinions of this flooring type! When we were looking at houses to buy we saw some awful installs!

For the trim? Just use any type of pry bar! A hammer is probably a good thing to have around the house in general though, you can get one for $4 at Walmart :)

Thank you 😊

Thank you for the advice! The laminate was glued down (poorly but glued). We did not want to glue strait to the subfloor with this being a rental and not knowing how well this floor would hold up, so going over the laminate seemed like a good idea, that’s all :) I’m no pro though, so I appreciate the advice, I’ll be doing another floor soon and will look into alternatives 👍🏻

How long do you have to lay the floor before it goes off

Honestly man…I was just putting a floor in and figured I’d make a video because it might help someone since it was a little confusing the first time we did it 😂 Don’t get all worked up about it, there are many more videos you can watch on how to do this, just watch those! Sorry I couldn’t help more! 👍🏻

Since it was just this one project I didn’t bother…but if I were to do it again I would definitely agree with you 😂

Indeed! They sure benefited Kamala "Knee Pads" Harris! The more she was down on her knee pads the faster she ascended. (Ask her boss, Willie Brown). Unfortunately she has no other qualifications to be there.....illiterate and criminal as Dementia Joe and dumb as a cackling loon!