Floating Floor Gluing

Glue down hardwood flooring often sounds more like real solid hardwood flooring than floating floors do.

Floating floor gluing.

Around the house the rooms with the most traffic such as the front hallway the kitchen and the recreation room are better served by glue down flooring than floating flooring but if you re considering a whole house. It was suggested by a worker at the store that i do both. In most cases glue down flooring is covered by a commercial warranty while floating flooring may be limited to only a light commercial and or residential warranty. But down a thin underlay and then glue the floor to the underlay.

Boards adhere well to the rough surface of the concrete subfloor and therefore lead to less gaps or planks lifting and buckling. Whether working with glue down or floating flooring it is recommended to consult with your manufacturer to confirm the product s warranty. Because of the way it is installed there isn t a hollow sound when walking across the floor or a spongy feel this is something that can be an issue with floating floors if they aren t installed perfectly and with optimal conditions. Floating floors are an easy mess free way to install new flooring without necessarily having to remove the existing flooring.

Click lock vinyl plank flooring also creates a floating floor but instead of having an adhesive connect the planks like gripstrip does the planks interlock with tongue and groove joints that easily snap together for a. The glue down method of engineered wood flooring installation is typically the most common and creates a highly stable floor.