Oak flooring-Nail or float?

[keith666]

Hi, I have bought 20mm by 140mm wide oak flooring and am planning to do living, dining rooms and hall. An area of nearly 40M2, it will be onto chipboard floor (house is 6 years old) and am looking for advice:
Should I nail or float floor? (skirting will be removed)
What kind of underlay is best?
Should i install plywood sheets underneath and how thick?

Sorry if this is a large request but I want to do this right and advice from this forum isa great tool.


Thanks

 

[WoodYouLike]

If your chipboard underfloor is sound, then no need for nailing nor installing extra plywood.
Use 3mm foam underlayment as sound-insulation, NO DPM and install the floor floating, glueing the T&G's.
Hope this helps

 

[keith666]

Thanks for the reply, sorry ive not responded, been busy with new house.
Flooring getting started this weekend, have good 3mm underlay and floor is solid and sound. I was planning to use straps to secure flooring while laying, do you reccomend using these?

Cheers

 

[WoodYouLike]

We never use straps ourselves, we are just carefully when walking over the boards just installed and we make sure that boards fit well together.