Amtico flooring on parquet and concrete - how to prepare

expertfloorman · 27 Apr 2010

AFloorLayer said:
The myth behind solid wood floors. Matty is right, there are other products which could solve the problem quite simply......

Jumpax

Forbo also make a subfloor system for their Marmoleum lino.

It would save a few quid on drying times because there aren't any!!

Its a bit of pain for the floorlayer because he has to install 2 layers of the boards, twice as much cutting ahhh!

I am affraid you are wrong about the suitability of the Jumpax system.
The parquet would still have to be removed as the parquet would swell underneath the visquine sheet.
There are two solutions, 1 rip out whole floor and put in specified concrete floor with dpc, after drying time continue with smoothing compoun.
Solution 2 would be to remove parquet, bring level up to existing concrete, then use liquid DPM, prime and continue with smoothing compound over whole floor. You will find that (though I disagree with this) that Amtico does not honour their guarantee fitted onto a barrier membrane

mac391 · 27 Apr 2010

angelatax said:
We are getting different advice from fitters and don't know who to believe. We want to put Amtico down in our hall. The door end of the hall is concrete, which has been down for about 25 years (we think). The rest of the hall is parquet which was laid when the house was built in the 1930s. It is all covered by carpet at present.

One fitter advises taking up the parquet, putting down a new concrete screed and then a latex-based covering.

The other says that in view of the time the parquet has been down he believes it would be sufficient to apply a leveling compound to the whole area.

Who is right? Does anyone have any views or comments? Should we revert to carpet and avoid any potential problems?

No one has mentioned that you could lay 6mm ply over your existing parquet then DPM and screed over your concrete to the same 6mm height. A final screed over both concrete and ply will be a well prepaired floor for Antico/karndean..

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Amtico flooring on parquet and concrete - how to prepare

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