How To Install A Plywood Floor Over Concrete

When installing subflooring over concrete for installation of wood flooring it is necessary to use thicker subflooring so that it can be nailed into.

How to install a plywood floor over concrete.

Because it raises the finished floor by an extra 1 1 2 inches and for other reasons the sleeper method has fallen into disuse. Engineered wood flooring less than thick and solid plank flooring 4 or wider cannot be installed directly to screeds so if you re installing our wide plank flooring you ll need to overlay a plywood over the screed system. Installing plywood over the subfloor or using sleepers which are two by fours laid flat across the floor and used as nailers. Watch more videos in this series.

In this project tom had to remove old tile and install another layer of 3 4 thick plywood. Decorative concrete decorative concrete coatings. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. Floated subfloor alternate subfloor glue down sub floor and the nail down subfloor system.

A minimum of 5 8 thick plywood is recommended with 3 4 thick plywood being considered ideal. In this video you will learn how to install self leveling concrete over plywood substrates. Learn how to install beautiful hardwood floors over a concrete slab. By admin february 17 2011.

How to install a wood subfloor over concrete with screeds. Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. The following project was executed by tom zilian of madstone floors from boston ma who created a polished concrete floor over a plywood substrate. Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in.