Can I lay laminate flooring over cork tiles and cut out the underlie typically needed?


The cork will start to rot sooner or subsequent, then you will have to verbs up perfectly good tiles to receive to the dodgy ones underneath.
A job half done is ultimately a spend in dribs and drabs of time. yes, cork is a great sound barrier!!


It would work just fine. In reality, rolls of cork are popular as an underlayment for a variety of floors, including laminate. The only entity that would give me any pause at adjectives would be that your cork is sealed as opposed to the typically unsealed underlayment. However, if the cork be installed correctly, moisture issues should not be a problem because there should be a vapor barrier underneath the cork. My suggestion would be a "floating" type of laminate floor that rests on top of the cork but is not actually attached to it. Either process, you'll be fine. why don't you just rip them out totally and start from scratch? I estimate if you're going to do something like that, you should do it properly to avoid any problems after because if you start getting damp beneath there or something else and it starts smelling awful etc...then you'll own to rip it all out again anyway. Just do it the way it should be done.
Answers:    "Cork is unique in so lots ways: it is light, buoyant, compressible and elastic, ROT-RESISTANT, fire-resistant (in its organic state), impermeable and yet soft. Yet it is a completely unconscious material which cannot be emulated by any synthetic substance. It is no surprise that it is highly sought after in different applications, in particular stoppers and floats, due to its honeycomb structure, flexible membrane and lightweight properties." from this website http://www.floorideas.co.uk/CorkFloors.h...
and this one also give good info on cork http://www.greenbuildingsupply.com/Publi...
and heres a you tube clip on laying laminate near a cork underlay. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdkyZP_g6...
So long as the cork was laid properly and is safe and sound (and you lay the laminate as per instructions given to you by the supplier) I can't imagine it would be a problem, but maybe check near the laminate supplier just to be 100% sure.