Putting down engineered wood floor

metricspaces

If an engineered wood floor is being glued to a concrete floor does this mean there is no underlay or moisture membrane put below the wood floor i.e. the wood is glued directly to the concrete?

I am looking at getting a herringbone engineered wood floor. The floor in the room is concrete. Is gluing it directly to the concrete the most common approach?

drunkmonkey

We used underlay in all ours. Similar to this https://www.ie.screwfix.com/duralay-premier-wood-laminate-flooring-underlay-3mm-10m-silver-brown.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj4iF_Z3_2AIV77_tCh3oLgwuEAQYASABEgKaWfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

metricspaces

drunkmonkey wrote: »

We used underlay in all ours. Similar to this https://www.ie.screwfix.com/duralay-premier-wood-laminate-flooring-underlay-3mm-10m-silver-brown.html?utm_source=Google&utm_medium=CPC&utm_campaign=Shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIj4iF_Z3_2AIV77_tCh3oLgwuEAQYASABEgKaWfD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

You have engineered wood floors? Are they floating so?

I don't think you can glue the wood to the floor if you put down underlay?

drunkmonkey

metricspaces wrote: »

You have engineered wood floors? Are they floating so?

I don't think you can glue the wood to the floor if you put down underlay?

We glued the planks together but not to the floor... everyone recommended this route...there was 4 carpenters here at one stage.

There all warm underfoot and never cold all year round and we don't have underfloor heating.
You'd want to make sure who ever is doing it knows what there doing.
We've engineered in 3 rooms...chose it for the kitchen as well as it's the main room glad we did when I've seen some of the kids bounce their heads on the floor.

metricspaces

drunkmonkey wrote: »

There all warm underfoot and never cold all year round and we don't have underfloor heating.

I never thought of this. I don't have underfloor heating either. So it sounds like a good idea from that perspective, being warmer.

I'm putting this floor in a south facing room, so it'll be very warm always (A rated house). So maybe it'll be warm enough glued directly to my concrete floor.

I am going with herringbone design. Possibly this is not as easy to leave floating, lots more joints than planks, so possibly floating would have too much movement and not be that stable.

I'll speak with the floor company I am going to use. Their fitter suggested gluing. I just want to be doubly sure he's going with the best approach - too late to research it when it's down

drunkmonkey

That's going to cost a bit to lay....I'd assume you can put underlay there, I would as it protects the wood from moisture and keeps in the warmth. I'd say they'll say it's up to yourself, you may just need to put down a light underlay not the foil backed stuff. It would help with any bit of blemishes in the concrete something like this https://www.woodies.ie/whiteriver-15-sq-m-white-pe-foam-underlay-1068448?utm_source=google_shopping&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI0c-no_L_2AIVZr7tCh3XhQMXEAQYBCABEgK9E_D_BwE

major deegan

metricspaces wrote: »

If an engineered wood floor is being glued to a concrete floor does this mean there is no underlay or moisture membrane put below the wood floor i.e. the wood is glued directly to the concrete?

I am looking at getting a herringbone engineered wood floor. The floor in the room is concrete. Is gluing it directly to the concrete the most common approach?

If it's being glued to the concrete there wont be any underlay.
A liquid sealer/ moisture barrier can be applied to concrete and then herringbone glued to that.
Underlay is for floating applications and I would doubt anyone would try to float herringbone.Too many individual pieces!

This one glued straight to concete slab.