How To Lay Plywood Flooring

While we love our hardwood floors we know that not every diyer has the budget and if we re keeping it real not every project is worth the splurge for higher end flooring we ve talked about and heard from our readers over on facebook about plywood plank flooring too.

How to lay plywood flooring.

Typical floor joists in residential construction sit on 16 inch centers but depending on the framing the joists might be. Because we re laying the plywood onto the existing floorboards we didn t want anything that was too thick so that we d. The plywood sheets lay perpendicular to the floor joists. Economy at the current price of 36 per sheet that just a little over 1 per square foot.

Consider both load bearing capacity and deflective properties when selecting subfloor materials. Here are our top 3 tips if you re thinking of installing a plywood floor. Vinyl flooring is usually not installed directly over the subfloor in residential applications. This is my third time using plywood for a finished floor and i thought i would go into more detail this time than i did before.

First i ll briefly go over my reasons for using it. This also applies to joists depth. In most cases 4 by 8 foot sheets of particle board or plywood must be installed in preparation for the vinyl floor install. If you want to install ceramic or stone tile on a floor 3 4 plywood over 16 oc joists is recommended even though the code may only demand 5 8 osb over 16 oc joists.