Prep Concrete Floor For Engineered Wood

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Prep concrete floor for engineered wood.

How to install glue down engineered wood flooring on concrete slab preparation. Even if your home was built on a concrete slab you can still enjoy the beauty and charm of hardwood floors. This video even shows how to remove car. For glue down wood floors good prep makes the actual installation easier creating efficiencies in production.

Many hardwood floors have been known to last decades. You may have to grind down the floor or use a self leveling compound like bostik sl 150 to even out the slab. Installing a hardwood floor over a concrete slab. Before installing any wood floor over concrete you ll need a moisture barrier.

Details on all the prep work needed to get your concrete floors ready for new hardwood flooring or even tile install. Currently the national wood flooring association nwfa recommends 1 8 to 3 16 in a 10ft radius. Hardwood flooring provides long lasting beauty and durability to a home. Use a long level and tape measure to check that the floor is level.

It also helps eliminate hollow spots and other movement which are common customer complaints. To determine the roughness of the concrete floor we put a direct rail to the floor and a level is determined at any not very smooth place. Your very first step before installing engineered hardwood floors over concrete is to let the boards acclimate to the room where they re going to be installed. Slab preparation is critical for glue down and includes sanding scraping leveling and filling low spots because the slab must be flat so the planks can fit correctly.

Typically it is sheets of plastic laid on the slab and taped at the seams with waterproof tape. Typically the floor must be level and uniform within 3 16 inch every 10 feet. Check your wood flooring manufacturer s recommendations and sand any high spots with a concrete grinder. If difference is greater than 2 mm for every 6 feet of the floor it must be aligned.

It will extend up the wall for about 2 to 3 inches creating a bowl where your wood floor stays dry and protected. A little extra time spent prepping the slab benefits our company and results in high quality work making the customer happy. Check the manufacturer s recommendations but in most cases it s a minimum of three days with no maximum. Next check the boards for warpage or defects and then remove any bad ones.