Hardwood floors are durable beautiful and a great diy project.
How to install floating engineered wood flooring youtube.
This old house general contractor tom silva shows how to install a beautiful wood floor in just less than one day.
Float glue and nail installation are three main methods used for installing this type of floor.
The plank pieces are glued or clicked together if the flooring has a click lock system to each other but not to the subfloor creating a single large panel held in.
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Trim the doorstops on either side of the doorway to the height of the transition molding.
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Then cut a piece of transition to fit between the doorjambs.
This project focuses on installing a floating engineered floor.
Set the transition on the subfloor.
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A floating floor is simply a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the floor underneath it.
Installing a floating engineered hardwood floor.
Overlap the flooring on either side but leave a 5 16 inch gap against the floating floor.
Before installing a floating engineered hardwood floor follow the same preparation steps mentioned above including underlayment and laying out spacers to maintain the expansion gap specified by the manufacturer.
Here is the link to the first video.