Installing Engineered Hardwood Flooring

Installing an engineered wood floor is a major project.

Installing engineered hardwood flooring.

It s important to select the right kind and amount of flooring before you prepare the subfloor. If you were to install the floor by using all the planks from one box before opening the next you run the risk of installing the floor with large mismatched patches of flooring. Jeff hosking a flooring consultant for this old house first began laying floors 35 years ago back then 90 percent of his work was installing solid wood strips with nails. But now half of the flooring he installs is engineered made of thin sheets of wood glued together like plywood.

Engineered hardwood floors are a cost efficient way of getting the warm beautiful look of hardwood floors without the price of actual hardwood. Treat it with the respect it deserves. Here are the eight critical questions you must research and answer to plan and budget for a successful engineered hardwood flooring installation. What are the best engineered hardwood floors to lay over your concrete slab.

Nail down the first row for your first row face the tongue toward the center of the room pre drilling and nailing with finishing nails about 1 inch in from the wall. Engineered hardwood floors may be installed over wood subfloors using staples or flooring cleats.