Installing Engineered Wood Flooring Over Plywood Subfloor

The key to a beautiful long lasting hardwood or laminate floor is a well prepared subfloor.

Installing engineered wood flooring over plywood subfloor.

How to install a wooden floor over osb. They are normally set in a bed of adhesive which can allow for a nice solid platform for the flooring install. Glue nail staple and float. Always store floor panels under cover.

If you ve decided to install engineered hardwoods there are four possible installation methods depending on the subfloor. The wood subfloor panels used in these scenarios should conform to most current u s. Not letting a subfloor dry. 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.

Edge gold includes patented down pore grooves that help shed standing water and a proprietary edge seal to reduce edge swell. Before you install your plywood subfloor first calculate the room s square footage to find out how much flooring you ll need to buy. R503 2 of the 2015 irc. What is engineered hardwood flooring.

Since the nails are 1 75 long that s about 0 75 of nail to dig into the plywood subfloor which is great. Made from layers of real wood compressed together engineered hardwood floors are better able to handle changes in moisture and humidity than solid hardwood. Osb exposed during construction must be allowed to dry especially before installing sensitive finish materials such as hardwood flooring. 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.

Or should you just blow off the gypcrete approach and attach the pex under the subfloor using those metal flanges. 2305 1 5 of the 2015 ibc. Re secure any loose wood subfloor planks osb or plywood subfloors to the floor joists using 2 1 2 deck screws. Hardwood floor is 0 75 thick.

Plywood allows for a much better build up with lower undulations in the subfloor. 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. Even so the national wood flooring. Builders often reserve the use of oriented stand board for residential sheathing and construct subfloors with plywood.

Roll out sheets of tar paper over the clean subfloor and use a staple gun to affix the paper to the floor. We also go over questions regarding particle board and installing new hardwood flooring over old wood flooring. Do this by multiplying the room s length by its width.