Fitting A Wooden Floor On Concrete

Hardwood floors are durable low maintenance and easy to clean.

Fitting a wooden floor on concrete. Typically it is sheets of plastic laid on the slab and taped at the seams with waterproof tape. Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. Add moisture barrier once the slab is dry cover it with a moisture barrier consisting of two layers of tar.

Nail wood flooring planks. Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. Cost skill level start to finish 2 days. You usually determine this.

Construct a subfloor with sheets of 3 4 inch pressure treated plywood over the moisture barrier. Adding a subfloor over the concrete slab is one installation method. Watch this video to see how easy it is. Dry the slab before you prepare the concrete for hardwood flooring it must be dry.

It will extend up the wall for about 2 to 3 inches creating a bowl where your wood floor stays dry and protected. Before installing any wood floor over concrete you ll need a moisture barrier.