How To Install Wood Floor Padding
If you re installing on top of a plywood subfloor the padding alone is probably fine.
How to install wood floor padding. Hardwood floors are durable beautiful and a great diy project. Soft padded foam of the type that is regularly installed under laminate flooring is one layer installed between the subflooring and solid hardwood flooring. Other products require applying. Asphalt saturated felt paper to be used under solid hardwood flooring.
Learn how to install solid hardwood flooring with a few simple tools. Shaw installation guides call for the use of 15 lb. Nail or staple installations solid hardwood flooring must be nailed or stapled to an approved subfloor. Before you get started installing any hardwood or laminate flooring you ll first want to measure the room you re going to be installing the flooring into and then checking the flooring you re going to install to see what the square footage coverage is per box.
Luckily the padding is not difficult to install either. Padding and layers under hardwood flooring. Some products use double sided carpet tape to attach the pieces. The padding is not thick enough to act like a moisture barrier in that circumstance.
Installing underlayment on concrete is a bit different than a wood sub floor because obviously you can t tack it in. Engineered wood flooring however offers far more options for the addition of the padding style underlayment. My padding had built in adhesive strips to attach it together but when i had to. The use of shaw underlayment under a solid hardwood floor is not recommended.
This short video shows how to install foam underlayment for a hardwood floor.