Installing Engineered Wood Flooring Over Plywood Subfloor

Not letting a subfloor dry.

Installing engineered wood flooring over plywood subfloor.

Always store floor panels under cover. Made from layers of real wood compressed together engineered hardwood floors are better able to handle changes in moisture and humidity than solid hardwood. Hardwood floor is 0 75 thick. Do this by multiplying the room s length by its width.

Before you install your plywood subfloor first calculate the room s square footage to find out how much flooring you ll need to buy. They are normally set in a bed of adhesive which can allow for a nice solid platform for the flooring install. Roll out sheets of tar paper over the clean subfloor and use a staple gun to affix the paper to the floor. Since the nails are 1 75 long that s about 0 75 of nail to dig into the plywood subfloor which is great.

Glue nail staple and float. Edge gold includes patented down pore grooves that help shed standing water and a proprietary edge seal to reduce edge swell. The key to a beautiful long lasting hardwood or laminate floor is a well prepared subfloor. Even so the national wood flooring.

The wood subfloor panels used in these scenarios should conform to most current u s. Voluntary product standard ps1 construction and industrial plywood and or most current us voluntary ps 2 canadian standards csa 0151 or csa 0121 and or canadian performance standard can 0325 reference. Osb exposed during construction must be allowed to dry especially before installing sensitive finish materials such as hardwood flooring. Or should you just blow off the gypcrete approach and attach the pex under the subfloor using those metal flanges.

Do you lay more sheets of plywood over the gypcrete and sleepers and then just nail the t g as you would normally as long as the nails ddn t penetrate to the gypcrete. If you ve decided to install engineered hardwoods there are four possible installation methods depending on the subfloor. 2305 1 5 of the 2015 ibc. If you re nailing at a 45 degree angle this would be a total of 1 before you get to the plywood 0 75 x sqrt 2.

R503 2 of the 2015 irc. Builders often reserve the use of oriented stand board for residential sheathing and construct subfloors with plywood. The tar paper will form a moisture barrier which will prevent any condensation from the floors below which could potentially rot away at the underside of your new wood flooring. Prior to installing any finished flooring it is important to remember.

Plywood allows for a much better build up with lower undulations in the subfloor. Plywood is available in many thicknesses 1 8 1 4 11 32 15 32 19 32 23 32 and 1 1 8. What is engineered hardwood flooring.