Plywood Plank Floor Over Concrete

Place a layer of 6mm polyethylene onto the concrete as your moisture barrier.

Plywood plank floor over concrete. Floating a floating floor doesn t require any glue or nails although you may use glue between the tongue and the groove to keep the planks together. Allison question re using treated plywood for a basement floor over concrete using treated strips to allow for ventilation also trying treated plywood to cover an existing deck that has treated 2 6 16 pine as the decking currently. The air spaces between the dimples also act as insulation and keeps your floor warmer than if your floor was laid on bare concrete. On concrete floors part 1 plywood plank floor over concrete.

If your floor is plywood you don t need anything else. Wood floor over concrete than over a wood subfloor. Lay a plastic moisture barrier and then screw 3 4 in. Using a hilti direct fastening tool shoot concrete nails into 1 2 inch plywood to apply directly onto concrete.

So you need to allow it to cure for at least 60 days before even bothering to check the moisture level. Plywood floors over concrete. But it s considerably more difficult to install a 3 4 in. Radiantheatflooring concreteflooroverwood mikedayconcrete in this video i m pouring a radiant heat concrete floor over a plywood deck.

If you re installing plywood over an existing dry concrete floor you shouldn t have any problem. However a new concrete floor contains a lot of moisture. Plywood plank flooring diy wood floors diy flooring bozo. From cactus canyon blog.

How to lay solid wood flooring over a concrete subfloor the first consideration you will need to make is how you are going to attach your planks to the floor. Wood planks to the plywood. Alright so if you remember in part 1 of my plywood plank floors post i mentioned how we were renovating the entire interior of our barn house and were looking for a interesting floor that was both low cost and durable. If you love solid wood floors and your home rests on a concrete slab you re not out of luck.

The best way to do it is to fasten 3 4 plywood to the concrete and then nail the flooring. Plywood to the concrete.