How To Glue Down Plywood Floor To Concrete

Nail wood flooring planks.

How to glue down plywood floor to concrete.

There is a product you can buy from your local home depot store for putting under a floor over concrete. Then nail the flooring planks with a standard flooring nailer see photo for details. Nailing plywood to concrete floor if you place the poly and place t g plywood fixed by glueing in the groove without fixing any nails or anchor. Don t glue the plywood to the concrete.

Then fixe your 3 4 timber flooring glued and secret nail. Firmly press the plywood sheet into place. Concrete has moisture in it and your wood will mold and rot over time. Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in.

Run your hands over the surface of the plywood and push down firmly to secure it in place. Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. Any scribed or ripped cuts must be measured and fit before the glue in that area goes down. Glue wood flooring to a concrete slab a plywood core makes engineered flooring the most stable choice provided the slab is flat and dry.

Lay the 1x4s perpendicular to the direction you intend to install the floor planks. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. Pick up the plywood and set it directly on the concrete at the desired location. I try to plan as i go.

Use a minimum 3 4 inch cd exposure 1 plywood sheathing 4 foot by 8 foot sheets. Begin by cutting sheets to 16 inches by 8 feet or smaller panels marked 3 8 of an inch deep on back and a minimum of every 12 inches across in width. It looks like a sheet of dimples or very large bubble wrap. Adding a subfloor over the concrete slab is one installation method.

This will be easier if two people place the plywood down onto the glue and then press down firmly to help the glue set. Construct a subfloor with sheets of 3 4 inch pressure treated plywood over the moisture barrier.