Questions about engineered wood floor

Annie1960

I'm getting quotes at present for this, and different suppliers are giving me different advice.

1. Is it better to glue the floor down, or use an underlay for a floating floor?

2. Which way should I lay the boards? One company said have them going towards the source of light (windows). The other said have them running along the longest walls of the area.

I'm having the whole downstairs done, and the existing floor is concrete.

Any advice?

Annie1960

Anyone?
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Fat_Walt

If you're going for glue down is your floor level?

krey

you only glue them down if it's going over concrete. either way it's designed to be a floating floor, so even on concrete you can leave it as-is with an underlay under it.

if it's going over floorboards, you can either screw/nail them to the floorboards or leave as floating floor with or without underlay.


lay them along the longest wall 99% of the time.

Annie1960

Fat_Walt wrote: »

If you're going for glue down is your floor level?

The floor is level.

Annie1960

krey wrote: »

you only glue them down if it's going over concrete. either way it's designed to be a floating floor, so even on concrete you can leave it as-is with an underlay under it.

if it's going over floorboards, you can either screw/nail them to the floorboards or leave as floating floor with or without underlay.


lay them along the longest wall 99% of the time.

As above, the floor is concrete.

I read online that it's better to glue if the area is over 30 sq. metres (and mine is), as floating floors are less stable.

Chanes

We had the ground floor done with Kahrs engineered wood floor and it was done using an underlay by the contractors. If they had tried to glue it down I would have stopped them, we have had flooring fitted in more than one property and none have ever suggested gluing the flooring to the concrete - what a nightmare that would be if you ever wanted to lift it!

Fat_Walt

Annie1960 wrote: »

The floor is level.

Well if you're sure glue it down but I'd be surprised if the who ground floor is.

Annie1960

Different people are telling me that floating is cheaper, easier, and simpler. One told me glueing is much better (in my last house I had parquet which was glued down).

My online search suggests it's better to glue if the area is large (like mine).

I'm still unsure!

Chanes

There is a difference between solid wooden flooring such as parquet and an engineered wooden flooring. There are lots of sites explaining them too. But...

If you glue it down...you're stuck with it.

Saver-upper

I can't advise on floating floors,gluing,etc,sorry.
But I think the flooring is best to run along the longest length.If you do it this way,there is more of a "flow",and the space,I think,seems bigger,whereas the other way looks like shorter lengths being "budged" into space,with nowhere for your eye to "follow".Hope this makes sense.