How To Install Floating Engineered Wood Flooring

Engineered flooring goes down over a thin foam sheet which provides cushioning and sound dampening.

How to install floating engineered wood flooring.

You can use five gallon buckets of water to put pressure on the floor to keep the boards in place. Or as laminate flooring which has a hard plastic surface that has been convincingly printed to look like natural wood. The planks glue together to create a floor that floats moves freely as a unit. Be careful not to spill any of the water as you don t want to add any moisture to the flooring.

If you already have floor tiles for example or asphalt subfloor. Floating snap together flooring is available as engineered flooring which has a veneer of natural wood on top. Floating engineered hardwood flooring before installing a floating engineered hardwood floor follow the same preparation steps mentioned above including underlayment and laying out spacers to maintain the expansion gap specified by the manufacturer. On the other hand installing floating engineered hardwood flooring is faster to install and cheaper.