if anyone reads this, please respond...need info about dricore. What happens if you do get a flood?? How does the dricore hold up? If we get a flood the water recedes pretty fast....My basement is normaly dry except the 2 times (in 10 years) when we had Noreasters, and it rained for 13 days, there was a full moon, the ground was saturated and everything else was working against me. Needless to say we had to rip out carpet twice. We use the room as a kids playroom and there was the 2 times we got ground water. I'm looking for an inexpensive solution to just make the floors look good. I was thinking of dricore with an inexpensive floating laminate on top or just putting a big remnant rug had have on the floor now. If anyone has a suggestions please let me know. What happens to tile if you get ground water? thanks

Is this seriously all the help I can get here? Pray? I understand jesus was a carpenter but I'm pretty sure he is to busy to come and fix my floor right now. Also if I could afford to hire an architect or anyone for that matter, I wouldn't be combing the web for ideas. If anyone out there has anymore suggestions I would be thankful.

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The only way to do it correctly is to glue the carpet to the floating floor. Later when you take it up both floors will come up together. It is an unconventional way to do it but it will work if done correctly. The carpet and floor will expand and contract together so there will be no buckling of the floor which is a possibility if you try to nail tack strips through the floating floor. Another way to do it is to saw all around the floor about 2 inches from the walls. Then nail the tack strips to the bare floor. In that case you can also install padding as usual (gluing it to the existing floor.) But, it would probably be cheaper to just take up the floor. The only part that may be troublesome is removing the baseboards. I have installed all types of floors for over 40 years.