Floor Preparation For Floating Floor

Sometimes a floor requires a thick layer up to a 2 inches of cement patching compound to eliminate.

Floor preparation for floating floor.

Evaluate the space where you plan to install the floating flooring. You will lay the flooring lengthwise to this wall. 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. Establish installation guidelines measure and mark the center of all four walls at floor level.

If your subfloor is concrete cover it with a wood or engineered wood subfloor first. For floating floors it helps eliminate separation and deflection. Now that the floor preparation is complete we will move on to the next stage. Hopefully this is all the floor preparation you will need to do.

Under cutting door jambs. Laying down your floating. With a sand and finish floor good prep helps eliminate chatter and other problems. For glue down wood floors good prep makes the actual installation easier creating efficiencies in production.

Preparing for installation 1. Remove the existing flooring pull up the current floor. 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. Determine your starting wall.