How To Install Solid Bamboo Wood Floors

Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video.

How to install solid bamboo wood floors.

Step 1 measure moisture content. You must determine the amount of moisture in the plywood. Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. Shaw s engineered products are made with either a plywood core or a high density fiberboard core.

Wood floor installation requires a level subfloor and that your hardwood flooring is acclimated to the room s humidity and temperature according to the manufacturer s guidelines. In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood. It can be nailed stapled and or glued to a solid subfloor or an existing hardwood floor in good condition. Engineered bamboo usually installed as a floating floor system with click together planks laid over a cushiony foam pad.

Floating the floor using uniclic flooring. When installing a bamboo floor in your home often one of the first steps is to put in a slab of plywood over the concrete floor. To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. This can easily be done using a moisture test kit which is available at hardware and super stores.

There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo. Whether you select bamboo hardwood or engineered bamboo planks the flooring comes with tongue and groove fasteners that make it simple for do it yourselfers to install a floating floor. Solid bamboo hardwood flooring is installed like any hardwood flooring. If your current subfloor is concrete you will only be able to install engineered flooring not solid hardwood.

Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.