Laying engineered floor

[goooba769]

Right then Iv just bought some oak engineered flooring and would like some tips on the way forward. Its going on a very flat new concrete floor which has been down for 4 months.
Is it best to glue it down or maybe a floating floor?
Any help would be great.

 

[mattysupra]

what size are the boards? Go for floating method if the instructions say to do this.

 

[goooba769]

I think they are 150mm wide and about 1.8m long.
Why the floating technique? what would you suggest to sue under the boards?
Just thought id mention once this goes down I will fit the skirting boards over the top(incase this changes things)

 

[mattysupra]

that size boards would of been designed to be floating, you can glue to subfloor if you want but is very messy and hard work on a floor designed to be floated. I would recommend a underlay called timbermate if floating on concrete and another one i cant remember the name of if wooden subfloor, Im sure WOODY will post the name of one for wooden subfloor of the same quality tomorrow.
You could use a cheap foam to be fair but they dont insulate against sound or heat any where near as good as timbermate.

 

[goooba769]

Thanks mat will have a proper look at the instructions tomorrow and see what they suggest.

 

[WoodYouLike]

Timbermate Excel (4mm) on concrete floors and Timbermate Duratex (4mm) on non-concrete floors.
The Excel version has a DPM in it, the Duratex not.