Follow these steps to install an engineered wood floor in your home.
How to install plywood flooring over concrete.
Where plastic sheets must be joined overlap the sheets by several inches and use strong vinyl tape to secure them.
Engineered wood flooring less than thick and solid plank flooring 4 or wider cannot be installed directly to screeds so if you re installing our wide plank flooring you ll need to overlay a plywood over the screed system.
How to install engineered wood over concrete engineered wood flooring offers the timeless look of hardwood but is perfect for basements and other areas where moisture can be an issue.
Often when we talk of subflooring people think of lauan plywood which is used as subflooring over thicker plywood in preparation for installing a vinyl floor.
Install a plastic vapor barrier.
Cover the plywood with 15 pound roofing felt and then install the engineered or laminate floor.
Cover the sleepers with 6 millimeter plastic and then lay down 5 8 inch plywood.
It looks like a sheet of dimples or very large bubble wrap.
Before hardwood flooring is installed over concrete a plywood subfloor must be installed.
Engineered wood floors may be nailed or glued to the plywood subfloor.
There is a product you can buy from your local home depot store for putting under a floor over concrete.
Rather than tear out a wooden floor and installing concrete your wooden floor can be turned into a beautiful concrete floor with a concrete microtopping.
Floated subfloor alternate subfloor glue down sub floor and the nail down subfloor system.
If your concrete passes the moisture test then plastic sheeting at least 6 mils thick will prevent moisture from getting into your laminate flooring.
Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring.
How to install a wood subfloor over concrete with screeds.
Learn how to install beautiful hardwood floors over a concrete slab.
Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in.
Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in.
Not all subfloors are the same.
Don t glue the plywood to the concrete.
Concrete has moisture in it and your wood will mold and rot over time.