Floor Preparation For Floating Floor

Preparing for installation 1.

Floor preparation for floating floor.

With a sand and finish floor good prep helps eliminate chatter and other problems. Sometimes a floor requires a thick layer up to a 2 inches of cement patching compound to eliminate. If your subfloor is concrete cover it with a wood or engineered wood subfloor first. For floating floors it helps eliminate separation and deflection.

Establish installation guidelines measure and mark the center of all four walls at floor level. Under cutting door jambs. Evaluate the space where you plan to install the floating flooring. Determine your starting wall.

Use a pry bar and hammer to remove baseboards to create an expansion gap a space that allows the new flooring to expand from heat and moisture. Snap the chalk line over the top of the concrete or moisture barrier between the marks on opposite walls making a cross. Skim coating in floor preparation is a process in which a compound is applied to the subfloor as an underlayment to reduce variations in the floor and provide for a smooth and adherable surface over which new floor coverings can be installed. Before you go about laying down your floating.

Remove the existing flooring pull up the current floor. A little tip to find little nails or pebbles get down on the floor put your ear against the floor and look across the room you can spot anything you missed. Hopefully this is all the floor preparation you will need to do. Now that the floor preparation is complete we will move on to the next stage.