How To Lay Plywood Flooring

While we love our hardwood floors we know that not every diyer has the budget and if we re keeping it real not every project is worth the splurge for higher end flooring we ve talked about and heard from our readers over on facebook about plywood plank flooring too.

How to lay plywood flooring.

Because we re laying the plywood onto the existing floorboards we didn t want anything that was too thick so that we d. Typical floor joists in residential construction sit on 16 inch centers but depending on the framing the joists might be. Economy at the current price of 36 per sheet that just a little over 1 per square foot. This also applies to joists depth.

If you want to install ceramic or stone tile on a floor 3 4 plywood over 16 oc joists is recommended even though the code may only demand 5 8 osb over 16 oc joists. Vinyl flooring is usually not installed directly over the subfloor in residential applications. Because you can install sheet vinyl over existing vinyl it offers the option of changing design without breaking the bank. Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet.

Here are our top 3 tips if you re thinking of installing a plywood floor. If you re installing a plywood floor on floorboards make sure to install your new planks of wood at a 90 angle to the existing floorboards. This is my third time using plywood for a finished floor and i thought i would go into more detail this time than i did before. The plywood sheets lay perpendicular to the floor joists.