Fitting Solid Wood Flooring

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Hi all, new to the forum and fitting floors so any help would be most appreciated.

I recently bought some cheap solid wood floor from an internet site :oops: which is Florence Solid Rustic Oak Flooring Lacquered and now need some advice how to lay it. The instructions are focussed on a concrete sub-floor which is not helping me as I would like to lay it on my ground floor which is wooden floorboards. I am aware of the secret nailing method but I am wondering can I use a floating method of just gluing the tongue and grooves with PVA (flooring edition) or using the adhesive underlay you can get from Homebase? I know engineered flooring can be floated but what about solid wood flooring?

Also do I need to lay underlay for damp proofing etc and if so, what type?

any advice would be appreciated

Steven
 
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Try the internet site you bought this stuff from. Or do they only supply and nothing else, like many cheap and awful places do?
 
Try the internet site you bought this stuff from. Or do they only supply and nothing else, like many cheap and awful places do?

Thank you for the reply

They have generic instructions for concrete only and using their products only to lay the floor. So I am at a loss on how to lay this on floorboards.

Steve
 
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I have never tried either, but logically cannot not see why it should not be possible.if it is posible for engineered.

But just to repeat , that's theoretical and I have no experience doing that.
 
It depends on various things, being able to install Solid floorboards floating, see this article: Solid Floors - what to note

As as side-note: I hate cheap online sellers who don't have the decency to reply to questions/queries from their clients. But then again.... you get what you pay for, service and all.
 

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