Install click vinyl in the house hallway on tiled flooring

Hello,

we would like to equip our hallway with a new floor covering and would like to install a click vinyl floor floating. Currently, the hallway is covered with a light (white) tile floor that is very firmly fixed and which we want to leave under the new covering. Therefore, the new covering should be quite thin so that the steps to the adjoining rooms are not too high.

The maximum joint width of the tiles is about 4 mm, the maximum joint depth is 1.5 mm. Additionally, there are slight unevenness between the tiles, which amount to a maximum of 2 mm.

The hallway is about 6.66 m long and about 1.36 m wide with an additional “side arm” of approximately 1.45x0.97 m. In the hallway there are 7 doors with associated recesses, 6 of which are room doors that open into the rooms. These doors have small steps to the rooms, i.e., the room coverings lie about 2-3 cm lower.

1 door at the end of the hallway to the stairwell opens inward into the hallway. The step towards the stairwell goes upwards, i.e., the covering in the stairwell is about 3 cm higher.

I have attached a sketch of the hallway with the exact measurements and some photos.


And now my questions:
- Which click vinyl and impact sound insulation is best suited for our project? I have heard that a rigid floor is good for tiles, is that true?
- Which installation direction would you recommend, across or along the hallway? On which side of the hallway should you preferably start with the first row?
- Which format would you recommend, plank shape or tile shape? We actually prefer the longer planks because the tiles were already there.
- Can the tile baseboard remain or should the edge tiles better be removed and instead of cover strips (over the tile baseboards) new “normal” baseboards be installed?
- Should the color of the baseboards better match the wall color or the floor covering? The walls are white.
- I would like to shorten the door frames and install the covering underneath? I understand that this works well at the beginning of the rows because the planks can be pushed under the frames there, but what do you do at the end of the installation when there are still doors with frames at the end and at the side?
- Which color scheme is best for a hallway where there are only room doors and no windows? Since we had a very light covering now, we tend to a darker shade anyway. What is your opinion here?
- Which floor profiles are best used as a finish at the doors, i.e., at the transitions/steps to the adjoining rooms? Are there insertion strips that can be laid flush with today’s finish so that the doors have the identical stop?

Many questions, but maybe you have a few helpful answers :-)

Best regards
Josef

I can’t say much about improvising on the tiled floor. I have the impression that in the end you won’t save much effort.

The laying direction of the favored plank type is not so relevant from a craftsmanship perspective. Visually, it can make a difference in brightness (light incidence) and of course stretch the room more along the plank direction or compress it orthogonally to the plank direction. In the hallway, I would therefore lay it rather crosswise.

The transitions look especially good when the material is laid continuously without a transition. Since the floor is not glued, there won’t be any problems with expansion joints. You can also save yourself thresholds then.

Which floor profiles are best used at the transitions to the adjacent rooms? The coverings in the rooms are all lower, so there are steps down from the hallway into the rooms. The doors open towards the rooms and, when closed, hit these steps. Therefore, no profile can be placed in between; the hallway profiles must not extend beyond the step edges.