oak parquet flooring blocks- glue or nail?

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hi

I am planning to have oak parquet flooring in my living room and and hallway- (total area 56m2) herring bone style.
Each block measures 360mm x 60 mm x 18mm thick T&G.

The fitter has told me he will have to put treated plywood 4mm -6mm over the exisisting floorboards and he will then secret nail the blocks in and there is no need for gluing.

Further more he will charge £180 a day labour and it will take him 5-6 days.


Is this correct because i have read that parquet flooring should not be nailed.

thanks in advance

arronD
 
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For starters 4 - 6mm ply is way too thin for this project, he/you should use at least 12mm ply (exterior grade), screwed every 20 - 25cm (mind pipes and wires!).

We would fully bond the blocks to the ply with parquet adhesive (F.Ball B92 or Mapei P990) and not secret nail - it's a wood block floor, not floorboards!

Are the blocks pre-finished or unfinished? If unfinished what type of finish does he plan to use and are the materials and time this will take - sanding and applying finish - included in the price/days he thinks it will take?
 

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