How To Install Solid Bamboo Wood Floors

Step 1 measure moisture content.

How to install solid bamboo wood floors.

Wood floor installation requires a level subfloor and that your hardwood flooring is acclimated to the room s humidity and temperature according to the manufacturer s guidelines. Whether you select bamboo hardwood or engineered bamboo planks the flooring comes with tongue and groove fasteners that make it simple for do it yourselfers to install a floating floor. This can easily be done using a moisture test kit which is available at hardware and super stores. Shaw s engineered products are made with either a plywood core or a high density fiberboard core.

To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. It can be nailed stapled and or glued to a solid subfloor or an existing hardwood floor in good condition. Engineered bamboo usually installed as a floating floor system with click together planks laid over a cushiony foam pad. Solid bamboo hardwood flooring is installed like any hardwood flooring.

In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood. When installing a bamboo floor in your home often one of the first steps is to put in a slab of plywood over the concrete floor. Floating the floor using uniclic flooring. Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.

Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. Engineered is actually produced with three to five layers of hardwood. If your current subfloor is concrete you will only be able to install engineered flooring not solid hardwood. Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor.

Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video.