Installing Solid Wood Flooring On A Concrete Slab

When doing a solid wood flooring installation.

Installing solid wood flooring on a concrete slab.

These two ways are glue down or floating. Some manufacturers allow direct glue installation of 3 4 solid parquet flooring. Your best option is to have the boards click together and float. All we have to do is wait for the underlayment to dry.

Before installing any wood floor over concrete you ll need a moisture barrier. Of old glued down parquet flooring from my concrete slab dining room. There are two ways you can have engineered hardwood flooring installed on your concrete. Adding a subfloor over the concrete slab is one installation method.

If you love solid wood floors and your home rests on a concrete slab you re not out of luck. To glue a wooden floor a full coverage of flexible wood adhesive must be applied to the sub floor and the boards. Typically it is sheets of plastic laid on the slab and taped at the seams with waterproof tape. Gluing it down will prove to be a messy and irritating job.

Construct a subfloor with sheets of 3 4 inch pressure treated plywood over the moisture barrier. A vapor retarder is always required over the concrete slab and below the subflooring material. But it s considerably more difficult to install a 3 4 in. A glued floor feels as solid as a nailed floor underfoot and can handle the contractions of the wood thanks to the flexibility of the glue.

Nail wood flooring planks. I just pulled up 175 sq. It will extend up the wall for about 2 to 3 inches creating a bowl where your wood floor stays dry and protected. Plywood to the concrete.

Lay a plastic moisture barrier and then screw 3 4 in. Over the most recent thirty years the most popular method of installing solid 3 4 hardwood on concrete was a plywood subfloor attached to the slab illustration above. Since we ll be installing a plywood subfloor here our slab preparation is now done. A minimum 6 mil construction grade polyethylene film with perm of 13 or other impermeable material with a perm of 15 or less is recommended.