How To Install Prefinished Hardwood Floors On Concrete

In the photo note the flooring scrap extending the force of a pry bar into the piece being nailed.

How to install prefinished hardwood floors on concrete.

Flooring usually takes three to five days to acclimate but the real test of acclimation is when its moisture content as measured by. They are available in 3 4 inch thickness as well as low profile styles that are 5 16 to 5 8 inch thick which are a good or installing over existing flooring. Moisture can ruin your flooring before you even install it so avoid bringing the flooring into the installation space until the concrete is dry. Because the flooring is prefinished surface nailing should be kept to a minimum.

Unpack the flooring and spread it around the room to acclimate. This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to install a beautiful wood floor in just less than one day. Solid wood floors should not be installed in basements or below grade. The new hardwood floor is ready for immediate use.

See below for a shopping list and tools. Like unfinished hardwood floors the prefinished types typically have tongue and groove edges on all sides.