Laying an engineered wood floor

[mjs39]

Hello! I hope someone can help.

I will be laying a Boen engineered wood floor next week in my front room and I have a coupe of questions.

- The current floor is floorboards which are ok but not perfectly level all over so I am planning on laying fibre boards - do they need to be layed diagonally across the original floor?

- Once I have put fibre boards down can I lay the new floor in the same direction as the floor boards?

- What type of adhesive should I use on the tongue and groove? Can I use bog standard wood adhesive?

- Will I need compression straps and if so what exactly do I need and where do I get them?

Thanks for any answers!

 

[WoodYouLike]

Have a look here too.

Diagonal is a good idea. PVAC wood glue will do and no, no need for straps.

Didn't Boen or the business where you bought the floor give you better information?

 

[mjs39]

The company we bought from have been hopeless - I have phoned on 3 occasions and asked what underlay I should use and received 3 completely different answers! Having researched myself on the internet, I decided on fibre board.

They were cheapest for the floor so i have bought that from them, but none of the other bits I need as I couldn't trust their advice! It's not a small firm either.

 

[WoodYouLike]

Typical. Isn't it always.
Cheap, so no proper advice. Not the way we work, but then again we're not a big company

 

[paulro]

Do you supply underlay, adhesives and flooring accessories and if so where do I find you?

 

[WoodYouLike]

Do you supply underlay, adhesives and flooring accessories and if so where do I find you?

You can find us through our profile and yes to all questions