Floor Preparation For Floating Floor

For glue down wood floors good prep makes the actual installation easier creating efficiencies in production.

Floor preparation for floating floor.

Remove the existing flooring pull up the current floor. Skim coating in floor preparation is a process in which a compound is applied to the subfloor as an underlayment to reduce variations in the floor and provide for a smooth and adherable surface over which new floor coverings can be installed. Preparing for installation 1. Before you go about laying down your floating.

Use a pry bar and hammer to remove baseboards to create an expansion gap a space that allows the new flooring to expand from heat and moisture. If your subfloor is concrete cover it with a wood or engineered wood subfloor first. You will lay the flooring lengthwise to this wall. Sometimes a floor requires a thick layer up to a 2 inches of cement patching compound to eliminate.

Evaluate the space where you plan to install the floating flooring. Now that the floor preparation is complete we will move on to the next stage. Snap the chalk line over the top of the concrete or moisture barrier between the marks on opposite walls making a cross. With a sand and finish floor good prep helps eliminate chatter and other problems.

Hopefully this is all the floor preparation you will need to do. For floating floors it helps eliminate separation and deflection. Determine your starting wall. Under cutting door jambs.