Your experiences with vinyl flooring - clicking or gluing?

Hello everyone,

can you share some experience values with vinyl, both floating and click systems? We are currently undecided between floating and click.

Gluing is supposed to have the advantage that heat passes through faster (underfloor heating). Okay, but is that really an advantage? If with the click system the heat comes 12 hours later, then that's not really a big deal, and once the heat is there, it stays.

Thanks to you all. And don't stone me right away, of course everyone sees it differently and has different preferences, but that's why your experiences. And maybe there's something in there that one hasn't considered yet.

I assume you have underfloor heating, then the U-value decides, just google it

We installed laminate flooring as a floating floor, the rooms are warm

We have installed a "dark" vinyl floor floating on the ground floor. The quality and the subfloor of the floor are important, then it doesn't matter whether it is glued or just clicked. Important to note: Leave enough "space" at the edges on large surfaces because the floor does work and shifts quite a bit, it needs space to "breathe". With underfloor heating, I wouldn't want anything else, laminate was just too hard and too noisy for us. With vinyl, you don't hear any footsteps and it feels "soft".

We are trying out gluing. It doesn't look much more complicated. We have installed [Klickvinyl] here. Compared to laminate, I wouldn't call it click though. There was more hammering involved, despite the high price.

And since our living, dining, and kitchen area is so large, I wanted to see how much we can install without an expansion joint.

We had the entire ground floor and upper floor fully glued down. We were told that this is better for heat transfer (underfloor heating), and secondly, with floating installation, it can happen that the planks partially lift due to thermal expansion. For example: our living room is about 35 m² in size and approximately 9 m long on one side. On this side, we have 3 large windows, and the floor installer said that the floating vinyl would probably expand by about 5-6 cm in the summer due to sunlight. Another advantage is that damaged planks can be "simply" removed and replaced...

As an example: our living room is about 35 m² in size and about 9 m long on one side. On this side we have 3 large windows and the floor installer said that the floating vinyl would probably expand by about 5-6 cm in summer due to sunlight exposure

Fully vinyl or with HDF carrier?