engineered wood floor - float or glue

Doozergirl

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Just read what I said in post#3,
You now say it's click fit, something you omitted all the way though, click fit doesn't need gluing, I and many others know that, the responses would have been very different with full info.

Have you ever considered meditation for stress relief?

Don't sweat the small stuff.

cyclonebri1

Doozergirl wrote: »

Have you ever considered meditation for stress relief?

Don't sweat the small stuff.

If you have a problem with me keep the OP of this post out of it and make a direct complaint.

cyclonebri1

Doozergirl wrote: »

Have you ever considered meditation for stress relief?

Don't sweat the small stuff.

Do you have a problem with the fact that the OP has omitted important info,]
Is there a reason to take a pop at me?

We differ in views, I tell you that.

What's the issue?

If I had considered stress relief, you would be my squeeeeezy ball

Doozergirl

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Do you have a problem with the fact that the OP has omitted important info,]
Is there a reason to take a pop at me?

No, honey. I don't have a problem with the OP at all. He seems like a nice guy who doesn't need speaking to like a naughty child. I don't think he needs to apologise for anything.

Not taking a pop at you either. You seem quite stressed about little things. It would benefit your health to not be quite so grouchy

cyclonebri1

Doozergirl wrote: »

No, honey. I don't have a problem with the OP at all. He seems like a nice guy who doesn't need speaking to like a naughty child. I don't think he needs to apologise for anything.

Not taking a pop at you either. You seem quite stressed about little things. It would benefit your health to not be quite so grouchy

Grouchy? me, I'm an old fart so laid back you could sleep on me.

But when someone says "you must", "you can only", "you have to", I'm sure you understand ? I have to comment.

If I think differently and that is based on a lifetimes experience in such matters I will,l tell you.

We do share a common concern in this forum, what is it "in the home inc diy?"

You represent the pro aspect, I the other.

I'm not your enemy.

andrewf75

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

If it isn't click fit you stick it together, full stop.
That was the point I was trying to make.

Only then do you have the choice to stick down or float.

It may not help you now but at least it's here for others to consider.

Cheers.

Yeah I think I understand the point you were trying to make, but I was only interested in whether to glue it down or not, hence I never mentioned whether it was a click system or not - it wasn't relevant to my dilemma.

Anyway, apologies for not being clear and thanks for the advice, really appreciate it.

cyclonebri1

andrewf75 wrote: »

Yeah I think I understand the point you were trying to make, but I was only interested in whether to glue it down or not, hence I never mentioned whether it was a click system or not - it wasn't relevant to my dilemma.

Anyway, apologies for not being clear and thanks for the advice, really appreciate it.

Yes yes yes but accepted practice is to place glue so as to both stick together and stick down. Hope you understand.

andrewf75

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Yes yes yes but accepted practice is to place glue so as to both stick together and stick down. Hope you understand.

Yep I understand
Cheers

ritesh

Hi Andrewf75,

Both practices are used though a floating floor is more conventional. I too pondered over which to use when I installed my 18mm engineered oak floor. Atkinson Kirby, who supplied the floor, mentioned that a floating floor is absolutely perfect and there is no need to glue. All that is required is a good vapour barrier and fibre board underlay.

The advantages of this are, provided you have expansion gaps, the floor can expand and contract freely (gaps under skirting board). In the future should you need to replace any damaged boards they will be a lot easier to remove. The weight of the boards is very substantial and once fitted together is very solid.

I have heard stories where boards glued down to the floor have over a period of time snapped away due to expansion contraction. This is possibly due to the subfloor containing moisture. I have also heard stories of people not leaving expansion gaps and the floor has buckled.

My advice keep it simple and float the floor. You will be impressed either way at the final result, just keep at least 5 mm expansion gap all around.

Our floor has been in place for 9 years and still looks great! Best choice i ever made.

Hintza

Our new house has engineered boards above a GSHP and UF heating and it floats. The most important part was of course the self levelling screed.