Laying Timber Flooring Over Old Timber

This flooring can be installed over old wood flooring or over a plywood sub floor.

Laying timber flooring over old timber.

Solid hardwood or engineered wood flooring may serve as bases for vinyl flooring. You can install laminate over tile. Vinyl flooring over wood flooring. A laminate floor is a floating floor which means it doesn t get nailed or glued to the subfloor.

This condition would make direct installation over the wood difficult. Installing new hardwood over old hardwood floors. Use wood or drywall screws to attach the substrate to the floor. That makes it possible to install laminate over hardwood linoleum and vinyl and yes.

Or if the thickness of the floor will allow it staple to the existing floor. A minimum 3 4 inch thick sub floor is required. For instance i will look at much older floors that were nailed into floor joists before the widespread use of subfloors. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in.

The tile had been there for 30 years and we didn t know that underneath it was 3 layers of linoleum. One of the key things stressed by all wood floor suppliers is that wood flooring should be installed over an appropriate subfloor. If your subfloor is already hardwood but you want to improve the look of your home with new material it is possible to lay engineered hardwood over the existing floor with proper preparation and traditional installation techniques. We just re did most of our downstairs by replacing old mexican tile with a light wood flooring.

When installing new wood flooring parallel to an existing solid nail down floor add a minimum of 3 8 plywood underlayment over the existing floor to increase stability. Installing new hardwood over older wood floors can be extremely time saving in lieu of removal that can become expensive dirty and even dangerous depending on how the original floor was installed. Wood flooring of this type would need an. If you are working atop a single plywood layer we recommend adding a second layer of 1 4 to 1 2 inch plywood or commercial floor substrate material.

Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. One of the most important things which will need to be clarified before installing wood floor over vinyl is the make up of the subfloor beneath the vinyl floor. Old solid hardwood can cup or swell over time too. If the wood is heavily gapped these gaps must first be fixed.