Hi,
I've spent a good few hours 'googling' for a solution to my query but I keep seeing conflicting advice.
I've got some 20mm solid walnut floor that I want to lay onto asphalt (approx 15mm thick on top of concrete). The asphalt is level and dry and ideally I'd like to float the floor on top of Floortech Gold Plus underlay, glueing the T&G as I go. Is this sensible or am I way off the mark?
A few retail websites advise that solid floors should be glued down or nailed onto batons (this is my least favoured approach due to low ceiling height), saying that glueing the T&G doesn't allow the floor to move and should only be used for engineered floors. It seems common sense to me that a T&G glued floating floor with expansion gaps would allow for more movement than securing the planks individually to the subfloor.
Finally, if I can glue the T&G's, do I need to lay a certain amount of rows and allow them to dry before carrying on or can I lay the floor in one go and will they require clamping?
Apologies for the mammoth post, really don't want to cock this one up.
Thanks in advance, Phil.
I've spent a good few hours 'googling' for a solution to my query but I keep seeing conflicting advice.
I've got some 20mm solid walnut floor that I want to lay onto asphalt (approx 15mm thick on top of concrete). The asphalt is level and dry and ideally I'd like to float the floor on top of Floortech Gold Plus underlay, glueing the T&G as I go. Is this sensible or am I way off the mark?
A few retail websites advise that solid floors should be glued down or nailed onto batons (this is my least favoured approach due to low ceiling height), saying that glueing the T&G doesn't allow the floor to move and should only be used for engineered floors. It seems common sense to me that a T&G glued floating floor with expansion gaps would allow for more movement than securing the planks individually to the subfloor.
Finally, if I can glue the T&G's, do I need to lay a certain amount of rows and allow them to dry before carrying on or can I lay the floor in one go and will they require clamping?
Apologies for the mammoth post, really don't want to cock this one up.
Thanks in advance, Phil.
