anybody doing hardwood floors in fl
i have enough white oak to make up flooring for my sons bed room we live in s.w. fl. and have concrete floors do i put down tar paper and do a floating floor or tar paper ply wood and nail to ply wood has anyone done this please let me know
gary
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My method is to fix a 1/2" ply nailing base to the concrete and blind nail the flooring at 16" centers with a bead of construction adhesive -- also at 16" centers.
I presume the concrete is less than 75% RH?
IanDG
Seal that slab! Cover it with tar paper, visciline, whatever it takes. I ruined a bunch of pecan engineered flooring because the slab was wet. To make matters worse, it was a glue-down installation. I'll never glue anything to concrete again. Took way longer to get that stuff off the floor than to install it. I then sealed the concrete with a miracle sealer, then used 6 mil visciline, then put a foam vapor barrier then put laminate (floating) flooring on top of that. I guess if I get a flood that floor will be a floating dock!
You will probably find more in the Fine Home Building forums archive as the question is more up their alley. Knots is geared toward furniture.
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