the_fbi
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 posted on 28/12/07 at 11:08 AM |
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Any hardwood flooring or berber carpet experts?
Hi
I need to redo a room, replacing berber for new berber. There doesn't appear to be any underlay with the berber just sitting on the concrete
floor.
What is the best way of fitting it, with or without underlay, if with, whats the best value/type to use. What do you use to hold the underlay down and
the berber down too?
I'm pretty sure the berber is currently glued around the edges.
I'm also hopefully going to replace the hall berber with some hardwood floor, again straight onto concrete which I believe is pretty level,
smooth. Certainly the berber on it currently doesn't give the impression of a bad concrete floor under.
Whats the best way of laying the hardwood? Onto a thin ply/similar floor which is bonded to the concrete, or?
Also, if you have a hardwood floor adjoining a carpeted room (at a doorway) how do you deal with the height difference? Given its solid wood not
laminated I could plane the edge into a small ramp, but whats the normal/best way?
Any/all advice appreciated as this is totally new to me.
ta
Chris
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tomblyth
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| posted on 28/12/07 at 12:03 PM |
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Wood floor
I know very little about carpet but If you put hardwood floor down I would seal the floor PVA and fit an underlay 4mm single cell foam and tape the
joints also If you have underfloor heating make sure the hardwood is kiln dried with very low moisture content leave a 7 to 10mm gap all around the
room for expansion (best way is to remove skirting and replace after the floor has been laid so its 3mm higher than the floor and covers the expansion
gap. At the doors there are alloy or brass jointing strips available from builders merchants. more info could be gathered by asking TRADA the timber
association . also let the Timber acclimatise to the room before fitting! check the BBA cert for any products you use as this will give you
instillation guide and H & S date
http://www.bbacerts.co.uk
http://www.trada.co.uk/techinfo/
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NigeEss
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| posted on 28/12/07 at 12:15 PM |
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Are you planning parquet type hardwood or clicklock/glued planks ?
Parquet is bonded to the concrete and the best stuff I've found is Laybond17.
Planked floors float on the above mentioned foam etc.
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the_fbi
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| posted on 28/12/07 at 05:36 PM |
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Thanks guys.
They are normal tongue and groove, not clicklock type, so I guess I have to glue the T&G too.
I've got plenty of PVA left from the garage floor, so thats no problem.
Heating is normal radiators.
The manufacturer says to use Laybond 16, straight onto the concrete, but I'd rather have something between the floor and the concrete to add
insulating factors.
Would you really just have it floating on top of the 4mm foam?
Thanks again.
Chris
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