OT: House flooring Q's, Sub-floor? Options

[Kerrys914]

(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smash.gif) I am/will be pulling out some old carpet and vinyl flooring out of a living room and kitchen.

Is/could there be an extra layer of sub-flooring under the vinyl flooring in the kitchen? I am putting in some hardwood/laminate flooring in both spaces and want a seamless look to the two spaces.

I am not in the house yet so I can't pull the flooring up to look. I thought it might be a common practice thang to use an extra layer of sub-flooring???

Garage will be done after the 1st floor is done.. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif) (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/aktion035.gif)

Cheers

[VaccaRabite]

I went through exactly what you will be doing when I bought my house last may.
It is a TON of work, but it is _SO VERY_ worth it in the end.

You will probably find that the linoleum is glued to 3/16 play as the other have said. This is a very good thing. Trying to get linoleum off a subfloor is hell. It is much easier to pry up a corner of the ply and get under it with a sturdy floor scraper. Use that to pry up all the staples and nails. You should be able to take up the linoleum in large chunks that way.

The "sub floor" in my house was the house's 100 year old original pine floor. All I did was put red paper over it and nailed down my new 3/4 hickory flooring over that. It really turned out well. It is not perfectly level - granted. But I did not really want it perfectly level - it would be the only floor in the house that was... :-)

No lie, though. By far the hardest part was getting all the old flooring up. It took 3 days (working from noon to 4am all the days) to tear the old carpet and linoleum up, pull the nails and staples, fix bad sub floor boards etc. It only took a day and change to put in the new floor once all the demo work was done.

But when you are done, you will never belive it was the same room before the project was started.

Zach