Gluing Solid Wood Flooring To Concrete

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Gluing solid wood flooring to concrete.

This step by step guide written by a florida flooring contractor covers everything from leveling the slab to laying out and installing the tongue and groove planks for glue wood flooring. Can i glue down solid hardwood flooring over my concrete slab. Regardless of whether or not the flooring is glued nailed or floated engineered wood flooring needs to be acclimated to its environment before installation just like solid wood flooring. For those wanting to install solid hardwood flooring directly to concrete without a subfloor system changes are taking place especially when gluing directly to the concrete slab.

No 3 4 solid hardwood flooring can expand and contract more than engineered wood flooring. The moisture cure urethanes took the lead and the south was now able to enjoy solid wood flooring installations directly over their concrete slabs. But the catch is that the solid wood flooring we have that can be glued over concrete and warranted is 5 16 and 7 16 solid hardwood not 3 4 solid hardwood and can be only on on grade and suspended concrete. For years thinner solid hardwoods have been successfully installed.

This article however focuses only on the glue down application. Installing plywood over the subfloor or using sleepers which are two by fours laid flat across the floor and used as nailers. We get questions all the time about our claims that we can glue down solid wood over concrete. Yes you can and i glue together and install tongue and groove white oak flooring into panels and glue those sections onto the concrete floor in my shop u.

A sidebar offers advice on checking the concrete slab for moisture before you start. The national wood flooring association recommends two alternative installation methods. When we say 3 4 wood flooring we are not speaking about. One subtlety that some did not realize was that solid boards used successfully for glue down installation were not the same as those used for nail down.

Solid parquet hardwood flooring can be glued directly to a concrete slab on grade or above grade with the use of a manufacturer recommended vapor retarder. Nail down installations are covered in this article. Solid parquet should not be installed below grade. The truth about gluing solid wood flooring to concrete.

I would not suggest direct gluing down any 3 4 inch thick solid hardwood flooring to any surface the adhesive bond might not allow the solid wood flooring to move or breath normally. The entire flooring level is considered to be below grade where soil is present. While it s possible to glue hardwood flooring to concrete it s a messy and risky procedure and it s prone to failure. Gluing solid parquet flooring directly to a concrete slab.

You are not saying we can glue 3 4 solid wood over concrete are you well the answer is yes and no. Monday june 22 2009.