It sounds like the flooring is adding too much cushion and compromising the flooring joints with the noise.
Floating floor over carpet.
The most common type of floors floated over carpet are vinyl and laminate given they are budget friendly and feature a simple interlocking system of installation.
The only way would be to uninstall the flooring and remove the carpet and add a proper underlayment.
If your engineered floor is floating you should be able to carefully uninstall and re install it.
Before you worry about how to install carpet tiles over carpet you should know that there are two ways to do this.
Hi elain thanks for the question.
Here s a link to a success story over fluffy carpet if you d like to try it.
Armorlock plates these plates act as a mechanical floating floor.
We didn t know enough about our future to justify the time and expense.
Here s an overview of the two methods.
Wood laminate flooring directly over the carpet.
Floating floors are not for every installation or everyone floating floors can solve a host of issues like not having to remove asbestos flooring and floating a floor right over it.
A rug over carpet.
Sure i d get my security deposit back but i d have to live with a disgusting 8 x 10 cover up in the meantime.