How to install bamboo flooring on top of a wood subfloor bamboo flooring flooring installation care 5 comments 5 so you ve weighed all the pros and cons of bamboo flooring chosen your perfect material and now you re ready to install it.
How to install bamboo flooring on wood subfloor.
There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo.
Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.
When you install bamboo flooring you must have a sub floor that will stay dry year round.
If you have a wood sub floor make sure that the moisture content does not exceed 12.
Engineered bamboo usually installed as a floating floor system with click together planks laid over a cushiony foam pad.
Sand down any high spots until they are completely level.
As with wood subfloors grind down high spots and fill low spots with leveling compound.
For dips in the floor you ll want to use a self leveling compound and make sure to let it dry sufficiently before proceeding with the flooring installation.
A concrete sub floor requires less than three pounds of moisture emission per square foot and you must use a 3 in 1 underlayment under a floating floor.
Solid bamboo hardwood flooring is installed like any hardwood flooring.
Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2.
It can be nailed stapled and or glued to a solid subfloor or an existing hardwood floor in good condition.