How To Install Wood Flooring This Old House

Want to learn how to install hardwood floors.

How to install wood flooring this old house.

Unlike traditional solid wood strips a floating floor isn t nailed down. With no special tools you can go from subfloor to breathtaking in as little as a day. Instead the planks are either glued or snapped together. Costs are between 1 50 to 8 per square foot depending on wood thickness species and grade.

Trim doorjambs and casings to allow new flooring to slip underneath. Stack flooring log cabin style or just spread it around the room but not directly on concrete. Place floor plank on subfloor lay pull saw on top and saw through jambs and casings at all doorways. Hardwood floors are beautiful last a lifetime and are easy to install.

It s hard to imagine a house being cozy without the warmth of wood flooring. Let hardwood acclimate in the room you re installing it in for five days prior to installation to temperatures of 65 degrees to 75 degrees and recommended humidity levels of 30 to 55 percent. Before we get started with how to install hardwood floors let s cover a few basics. Hardwood flooring is solid wood cut from the tree.

Some prefinished solid wood and engineered wood floors are diy friendly but if you plan to hire a pro installer tack on 2 per square foot minimum. In this video this old house general contractor tom silva shows how to install a beautiful wood floor in just less than one day.