Floor Preparation For Floating Floor

Preparing for installation 1.

Floor preparation for floating floor.

Sometimes a floor requires a thick layer up to a 2 inches of cement patching compound to eliminate. You will lay the flooring lengthwise to this wall. Remove the existing flooring pull up the current floor. If your subfloor is concrete cover it with a wood or engineered wood subfloor first.

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. Establish installation guidelines measure and mark the center of all four walls at floor level. For glue down wood floors good prep makes the actual installation easier creating efficiencies in production. Hopefully this is all the floor preparation you will need to do.

Laying down your floating. Before you go about laying down your floating. Under cutting door jambs. Evaluate the space where you plan to install the floating flooring.

With a sand and finish floor good prep helps eliminate chatter and other problems. Now that the floor preparation is complete we will move on to the next stage. Use a pry bar and hammer to remove baseboards to create an expansion gap a space that allows the new flooring to expand from heat and moisture. Determine your starting wall.