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Do I need a roll on vapor barrier if the flooring is LVP and is moisture resistant/has a vapor barrier already? Everything I’ve read and heard suggests LVP flooring does not require a vapor barrier.

So I am currently in the process or installing new floors in my home. The home is approximately 1900 sq ft and we are replacing about 1000 sq ft of flooring. I have currently removed all of the old flooring down to the slab. The slab has been exposed in the home now for 2-3 weeks while we are awaiting our new flooring to come in to install.

Over the last 1-2 weeks, my wife and I started to notice that our house has seemed to be very humid. We bought a cheap sensor which is now showing >80% humidity in the home. Prior to removing the old flooring, we did not really notice that the home was humid, but it is difficult to say whether or not it was there before and we just started to notice it because of the flooring being removed.

The flooring that we have chosen to install is Luxury Vinyl Plank - which is waterproof/resistant to moisture. However, I now have hesitations about installing new flooring while the house is so humid due to concerns of it being damaged, or moisture becoming entrapped between the flooring and the slab leading to mold issues.

I started to look more into our AC unit to see if this can be a cause. Our home is approximately 1900 sq ft with a 3.5 ton 14 SEER unit. A company performed a load calculation on our house and had recommended upsizing to 3.5 tons from 3 tons. This was done approximately 6 months ago. I started to time our cycles over the last week, and it seems like our AC cycles 3 times per hour, running for 7 minutes on and 15 minutes off.

My question is: could the exposed slabs in our home be causing this excess humidity and once the new flooring is installed then the home will be less humid? And that our AC might just not by cycling long enough because we’ve had relatively cooler weather recently, now with an exposed slab, so it hasn’t needed to run as long to maintain the home’s temperature?

Or could this be a problem with my AC being oversized and that I have to remove the excess humidity in our home before putting new flooring down and risking them becoming damaged by moisture?

Or would it not matter much about the flooring since it is LVP and should be resistant to excess moisture?

I am just not sure how I should proceed from here.

Any and all advice is much appreciated!

I am buying a house that has surround sound speakers built into the walls with in-wall wiring to where the current owner has his TV. However, I would like to place my TV at a different part of the room. Is there a way that my surround sound receiver could be placed where the current TV is (where the wires for the speakers are) and have my TV placed on another side of the room? I would rather not have to re-direct the wires to a new location in the room if I do not have too.

Making the third trip there this year. Staying at Aksarben Suites Omaha.

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