Installing Hardwood On Chipboard

Hardwood flooring that is fastened by any method whether it be mechanical fasteners or glue should not go over particle board.

Installing hardwood on chipboard.

Now you know how to install hardwood floors over particle board. The home is about 35 years old. This entry was posted in products and tagged engineered hardwood floating floor installation installation old world chisel simplefloors terre verte vintage couture. Either solid wood flooring or engineered wood flooring can be installed onto a chipboard subfloor.

Hardwood floor is 0 75 thick. Solid wood flooring must be glued down directly onto the chipboard and engineered wood flooring can either be glued down or floated over an underlay. If you re stapling laminate flooring around the edges of the room you should be. Give us a call and we will send you free samples or stop by a local simplefloors showroom.

This makes installing other flooring such as hardwood difficult over a particleboard floor. When to add plywood. Putting in your own pre finished hardwood flooring costs less than having a professional install it. A floating install is the only way to go over it and i don t know of any 3 4 solid on the market that you can float.

Installing one might appear to be a frightening task but with proper preparation and planning any home improvement diyer can do it. It is particle board and not osb. I pulled up all the carpet and found 3 4 particle board over 1 2 plywood board subfloor underneath the carpet. The particle board does not run under the walls.

Stop when you have about 5 feet of flooring remaining to be laid or when you don t. You can glue it down staple it or install it in a floating method. A floating floor is simply a floor that does not need to be nailed or glued to the floor underneath it. Plain and simple answer is no.

Install the remaining lines of hardwood across your particleboard subfloor spreading more glue for each line. We want to install either laminate or hardwood flooring throughout most of our home. The most effective installation method for fitting hardwood flooring to chipboard is gluing which offers strength and stability. You can install hardwood on top of chipboard in three different methods.

Engineered flooring solid flooring. Hardwood floor nowadays is manufactured as tongue and groove and quickly installed with a nail gun and standard 1 75 length nails. That said nailing and spot gluing or floating installation methods can also be used as alternative ways of fitting hardwood flooring to chipboard.