Plywood Plank Floor Over Concrete

Plywood floors over concrete.

Plywood plank floor over concrete.

If you love solid wood floors and your home rests on a concrete slab you re not out of luck. So you need to allow it to cure for at least 60 days before even bothering to check the moisture level. Plywood plank flooring diy wood floors diy flooring bozo. Floating a floating floor doesn t require any glue or nails although you may use glue between the tongue and the groove to keep the planks together.

How to lay solid wood flooring over a concrete subfloor the first consideration you will need to make is how you are going to attach your planks to the floor. If you re installing plywood over an existing dry concrete floor you shouldn t have any problem. Published on aug 6 2009 here s a quick video to show the process of installing solid wood over concrete. However a new concrete floor contains a lot of moisture.

Place a layer of 6mm polyethylene onto the concrete as your moisture barrier. Wood floor over concrete than over a wood subfloor. It will also help if you have any small humps and roughspots in your floor that potentially give you uneven joints when you butt your plywood together. Allison question re using treated plywood for a basement floor over concrete using treated strips to allow for ventilation also trying treated plywood to cover an existing deck that has treated 2 6 16 pine as the decking currently.

Install carlisle wide plank floors milled to 1 2 inch thickness by blind nailing and gluing. On concrete floors part 1 plywood plank floor over concrete. But it s considerably more difficult to install a 3 4 in. Radiantheatflooring concreteflooroverwood mikedayconcrete in this video i m pouring a radiant heat concrete floor over a plywood deck.

Lay a plastic moisture barrier and then screw 3 4 in. The best way to do it is to fasten 3 4 plywood to the concrete and then nail the flooring. Alright so if you remember in part 1 of my plywood plank floors post i mentioned how we were renovating the entire interior of our barn house and were looking for a interesting floor that was both low cost and durable. If your floor is plywood you don t need anything else.

Plywood to the concrete. Wood planks to the plywood.