Tar Paper Under Carpet

Plywood underlayment is often used under thin flexible flooring materials like vinyl or linoleum tiles.

Tar paper under carpet.

While some felt was laid with only. Flooring felt or tar paper is sometimes laid under tile flat carpeting or old linoleum. Older flooring felt may contain asbestos making its removal critical. Plywood is only a modestly effective sound blocker.

You want it to breathe and not trap moister that may get through the slab and its tar paper vapor barrier. Can we lay roofing paper over the plywood and under the carpet to keep water from coming through and leaking down on our car. I have a second story deck 3 4 around my house. The paper comes in rolls typically 3 feet wide although other sizes are available.

As the broad rule you should put the carpet pad directly onto the wood floor and the carpeting over the pad no vapor barrier needed or desired above the wood floor. Paper 2 plastic 16 polyester 2 polyethylene 45 polyisocyanurate pir 1 polymer 1 polypropylene 19 polystyrene foam 7 polystyrene 8 recycled materials 10. It has deck boards and plywood and previously had carpet on it. The deck serves as a carport over my car as well as we use it to entertain on.

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