How To Install Floating Engineered Wood Flooring

You can use five gallon buckets of water to put pressure on the floor to keep the boards in place.

How to install floating engineered wood flooring. You need to leave a 5 16 inch gap between the flooring and the baseboard or wall around the perimeter of the room to allow the floor enough space to expand. It is ideal for installations where adhesives won t work on the existing floor. The planks glue together to create a floor that floats moves freely as a unit. Floating snap together flooring is available as engineered flooring which has a veneer of natural wood on top.

If you already have floor tiles for example or asphalt subfloor. On the other hand installing floating engineered hardwood flooring is faster to install and cheaper. Or as laminate flooring which has a hard plastic surface that has been convincingly printed to look like natural wood. Floating engineered hardwood flooring 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.