Solid Hardwood, Engineered and Laminate Flooring - Installing laminate floor over parquet floor?

We bought this used condo which currently has parquet floor on living and dining room. Is it okay to install laminate floor over parquet floor?

Yes, you can install laminate flooring over hardwood. There are many poor parquet products in homes. You can go with one of the popular engineered wood products. Make sure you go with a major manufacturer and dealer who offers good, better, best lines of quality & warranty & price. Go with the best product that you can afford. My first love is solid hardwood flooring (nail down product), but many folks are going with the floating wood engineered floors. Solid hardwood will add value to your home. A solid hardwood floor will outlive us all & add value to your home.

Not if the parquet is over a concrete substrate.

Over wood subfloor it is OK.

Thanks for your reply.

Can you explain more about concrete substrate?

Perhaps I'm not quiet understand.

So, installing laminate on top of wood floor is okay?

I thought parquet floor is a kind of woodfloor?

As in concrete foundation. Concrete subfloor.

Concrete will always have moisture vapor emissions.

Trap those vapors under your new laminate floor and the parquet will buckle off the concrete, under the new laminate.

Pergo has it stated on their website in the Q&A section, along with Uniclic, and Quick-step, on their websites.

Just trying to learn more about this. Does it mean it will damage the new laminate floor? If so, can you please give some examples? Thanks again!

Ya, when something forces itself up from the bottom of your laminate floor, in several places, 6 inches high, it can't be good.

I was trying to find the thread we had going on the flooring installer message boards, about this very subject. A consumer was asking questions about a flooring store that installed laminate over her parquet in part of the installation. She was only having problems with the part with parquet. It was buckling(her discription) when in fact it was the parquet underneath the laminate buckling.

Thanks again for your reply, Perry.

I guess we have made a huge mistake by letting the contractor convinced us that there was no need to remove the parquet floor. Since laminate floor is already installed on living and dining room (on top of the parquet floor), there is no way to fix it now :mad:

On the other hand, I guess it's my fault that we didn't do enough research ...