Floor Preparation For Floating Floor

For glue down wood floors good prep makes the actual installation easier creating efficiencies in production.

Floor preparation for floating floor. If your subfloor is concrete cover it with a wood or engineered wood subfloor first. Skim coating in floor preparation is a process in which a compound is applied to the subfloor as an underlayment to reduce variations in the floor and provide for a smooth and adherable surface over which new floor coverings can be installed. Hopefully this is all the floor preparation you will need to do. A little tip to find little nails or pebbles get down on the floor put your ear against the floor and look across the room you can spot anything you missed.

Use a pry bar and hammer to remove baseboards to create an expansion gap a space that allows the new flooring to expand from heat and moisture. Preparing for installation 1. Establish installation guidelines measure and mark the center of all four walls at floor level. Remove the existing flooring pull up the current floor.

Determine your starting wall. Before you go about laying down your floating. You will lay the flooring lengthwise to this wall. With a sand and finish floor good prep helps eliminate chatter and other problems.

Sometimes a floor requires a thick layer up to a 2 inches of cement patching compound to eliminate. Laying down your floating. Evaluate the space where you plan to install the floating flooring. Under cutting door jambs.