I am getting rid of the last remaining carpet in my house, which also happens to be in my gameroom. I was thinking of a laminate floating floor. I have done some poking around on the internet tonight, and I found some mentions of it possibly being a bad idea because of the weight of the machines.

I assume some of you Pinsiders have laminate flooring in your gamerooms, any of you have problems? Any feedback would be appreciated

My room is approx 19x14. It is a basement, with a cement subfloor. Would have 8 pins, 6 against one wall, two on the other.

#2 11 years ago

???

Shoot_Again

Pinside member

Vancouver, WA

12y 83,400 8,453 2

either flat casters with felt bottoms. Or get leg mover protectors and put under all legs.
If it is not felt or cloth bottom it will still scratch over time.
Less so with pergo rather than real hard wood.

#3 11 years ago

JJZ

toyotaboy

RandOM Pinball

Allyn, WA

12y 184K 11,930 3 14

hopefully your cement slab is flat, otherwise I would recommend putting down some sort of sub-flooring, otherwise you'll get creaks. While engineered wood is cheap and fine, spend the $2/foot on bamboo. It's super dense and holds up well. I've seen this sold at costco, lumber liquidators. Used to be harder to get 8 years ago, but I see it everywhere now.

#4 11 years ago

aeneas

Flippers.be

11y 76,050 1,522

I have laminate, is no problem as long as you put something underneath the metal leg levellers as protection.
In a basement humidity could be a problem so you'll probably need something underneath it (plastic sheet/insulation) ?

#5 11 years ago

MSO

Nibbles

Pinside member

12y 82,800 2,183 63

3M felt, round, stickies...good to go on laminate

#6 11 years ago

JAM

Wolfmarsh

Pinside member

12y 134K 10,956

You should ask black_rose for advice, he has mentioned he owns a flooring business.

#7 11 years ago

RLP

rplante

Pinside member

Forest Lake, MN

13y 46,650 497 5

I have laminate floors in the lower level gameroom and they've worked very well. Inexpensive hard plastic coasters allow for sliding the machines relatively easily.

Select a product with high hardness rating for better scratch resistance and you should be happy.

#8 11 years ago

DJE

Chudmeat

Inactive member

Dallas, TX

12y 19,650 317

What would you guys suggest for medium thickness carpet?

Reply

Wanna join the discussion? Please sign in to reply to this topic.

Hey there! Welcome to Pinside!

Donate to Pinside

Great to see you're enjoying Pinside! Did you know Pinside is able to run without any 3rd-party banners or ads, thanks to the support from our visitors? Please consider a donation to Pinside and get anext to your username to show for it! Or better yet, subscribe to Pinside+!

This page was printed from https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pinslaminate-flooring-on-cement-subfloorbad-idea and we tried optimising it for printing. Some page elements may have been deliberately hidden.

Scan the QR code on the left to jump to the URL this document was printed from.