Fitting Oak Flooring To Concrete
I managed to buy 18mm t g solid oak flooring from howdens at a good price a while back and am now at the stage where i will soon want to lay it.
Fitting oak flooring to concrete. Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. Engineered wooden floors are made of real wood veneer. As far as concrete is. Ideally the moisture content should be no more than 8 and ideally less.
In the case of a concrete subfloor there is also an option of laying sufficient battens and fitting the oak flooring over the top. One such area is laying an oak floor over a concrete sub floor. The tests mentioned below are the ones recommended by the oak flooring institute of national oak flooring manufactures association. One method to overcome this when laying a solid oak floor would be using the above method of laying out battens.
To self level. More and more people choosing oak floor to be laid at their houses want to install it over concrete subfloor. How to lay solid wood flooring over a concrete subfloor the first consideration you will need to make is how you are going to attach your planks to the floor. Here s a useful overview of each method.
Floating a floating floor doesn t require any glue or nails although you may use glue between the tongue and the groove to keep the planks together. There are three main kinds of wooden flooring. The only place glue might be used in this instance is between the tongue and the groove. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in.
Then nail the flooring planks with a standard flooring nailer see photo for details. If the concrete floor fails in the test certain provision must be provided to correct the moisture penetration problem or else the plan for wooden flooring has to be dropped. Floating a floating floor is a floor that is neither nailed nor glued to the sub floor. It s really important when fitting your new engineered wood flooring to an existing concrete sub floor that the sub floor is in good condition and has an appropriately low moisture content.
The solid oak flooring could then be simply nailed or screwed down. Laminate flooring is made up of a thin strip of plastic with an image of wood grain on it atop a piece of mdf. As time has progressed the need to fit oak flooring into ever changing conditions has increased. Floating gluing and nailing.
There are several ways of fitting a hardwood floor to a concrete sub floor these include. Remember that a solid oak floor is not suitable for floating. Laminate flooring engineered wooden flooring and solid wood or hardwood flooring all of which have different floor fitting costs. One chippy has told me to self level floor and fit floor as floating.
Then you can fit the boards with the use of the screwing.