How To Lay Engineered Oak Flooring On Concrete

Here s a step by step guide to help a diy enthusiast install an engineered wood floor over a concrete base.

How to lay engineered oak flooring on concrete.

Wood fiber based multiply and 2 ply construction. The engineered oak flooring must be suitable for the task so normally 20 mm thick and the joists should be spaced no wider than. You need to leave a 5 16 inch gap between the flooring and the baseboard or wall around the perimeter of the room to allow the floor enough space to expand. Laying laminate flooring on concrete.

Engineered floors are common in 3 types of construction. Treat it with the respect it deserves. The planks glue together to create a floor that floats moves freely as a unit. If you choose this method of fitting you need to make sure that there s no dampness whatsoever in your subfloor.

Engineered flooring goes down over a thin foam sheet which provides cushioning and sound dampening. Lay the 1x4s perpendicular to the direction you intend to install the floor planks. If in doubt add an extra pack to allow for any mishaps. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in.

Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. For laminate flooring calculate how many packs you ll need by working out the surface area of the room by multiplying the length and width together. What are the best engineered hardwood floors to lay over your concrete slab. 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.

Here are the eight critical questions you must research and answer to plan and budget for a successful engineered hardwood flooring installation. Oak walnut by finish oiled lacquered. First you need to do a moisture vapour transmission rate test. If you do intend to install engineered wood flooring in a longer run look for areas where you can add expansion gaps such as doorways.

The floating floor method simply involves laying your engineered oak boards without any direct fixing to the sub floor. The tests mentioned below are the ones recommended by the oak flooring institute of national oak flooring manufactures association. Once you ve fitted your underlay you can start laying laminate on concrete. The maximum length that we recommend engineered wood flooring can be installed is 7m in any direction.

Then nail the flooring planks with a standard flooring nailer see photo for details. For this the floor quite literally floats over the top of the concrete with the tongue and grooves glued together. Laying an engineered floor over concrete. Engineered oak boards as a structural floor in this situation the engineered oak boards are fixed by secret nailing see below them to your timber joists to form a new floor or to replace existing floor boards.