How To Install A Plywood Floor Over Concrete

By admin february 17 2011.

How to install a plywood floor over concrete.

Engineered wood flooring less than thick and solid plank flooring 4 or wider cannot be installed directly to screeds so if you re installing our wide plank flooring you ll need to overlay a plywood over the screed system. Installing plywood over the subfloor or using sleepers which are two by fours laid flat across the floor and used as nailers. Learn how to install beautiful hardwood floors over a concrete slab. In this video you will learn how to install self leveling concrete over plywood substrates.

How to install concrete floors over plywood sub floors. Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. The following project was executed by tom zilian of madstone floors from boston ma who created a polished concrete floor over a plywood substrate. When installing subflooring over concrete for installation of wood flooring it is necessary to use thicker subflooring so that it can be nailed into.

How to install a wood subfloor over concrete with screeds. Watch more videos in this series. A minimum of 5 8 thick plywood is recommended with 3 4 thick plywood being considered ideal. With the popularity of decorative concrete on the rise many people considering remodeling particularly in the northwest feel like it isn t an option for them simply because they have plywood sub floors.

Get a comprehensive breakdown on which materials to use what to take into consideration and what steps to take for four subfloor systems. Because it raises the finished floor by an extra 1 1 2 inches and for other reasons the sleeper method has fallen into disuse. Floated subfloor alternate subfloor glue down sub floor and the nail down subfloor system. In this project tom had to remove old tile and install another layer of 3 4 thick plywood.