Fitting Engineered Flooring

It s really important when fitting your new engineered wood flooring to an existing concrete sub floor that the sub floor is in good condition and has an appropriately low moisture content.

Fitting engineered flooring. The most common method is gluing. There are three main kinds of wooden flooring. If not we recommend you first lay a 4mm thick plywood down prior to fitting your floor.

Having custom made hardwood flooring for stairs installed in your home is a procedure that many people find to be cost prohibitive. Most engineered boards come supplied with tongue and groove joints and are designed to be laid as a floating floor needing no nailing or gluing. Ideally the moisture content should be no more than 8 and ideally less.

Engineered wooden floors are made of real wood veneer which can be sanded and treated and can be fixed above a concrete floor. Solid wood floors are whole planks of wood that are nailed down to a. Engineered flooring is a very popular choice for many home owners as well as business premises today.

There is a wide selection of colours to match any interior whilst different styles are available to create a custom look in a home office or commercial premises. Laminate flooring engineered wooden flooring and solid wood or hardwood flooring all of which have different floor fitting costs. A t g tongue and groove engineered floor can be installed by nailing it to a timber sub floor using a flooring nailer sticking it to a concrete floor using wood to concrete glue or installed on an underlay and the edges glued using a quality wood pva wood glue.

The colour and grain of oak engineered wood flooring adds warmth and natural character to a space that fits in with both traditional and contemporary settings. Fitting an engineered timber floor is well within the capabilities of most but there are often a few common questions to address first. If you ve decided to install engineered hardwoods there are four possible installation methods depending on the subfloor.

Floorworks offers a professional engineered floor fitting services as well as a variety of engineered wood flooring products. This is a manual tool that fires a specially designed nail through the tongue of the flooring at a 45 degree angle for invisible fixing. Glue nail staple and float.