The click fitting system means that the planks of flooring easily click together and lock into place without the need to glue it down to the subfloor.
How to fit engineered oak flooring.
Oak engineered wood flooring engineered oak flooring is constructed using multiple layers of compressed timber making these floorboards strong and stable whilst re creating the look of real oak.
If you re fitting your new engineered flooring around any pipes mark the position of the pipe on the floorboard you re laying.
Apply the adhesive to the subfloor according to manufactures instructions and re install the first row of flooring using spacers between each board and the wall.
The underlay is used as a layer between the subfloor and the hardwood floor.
The engineered oak flooring must be suitable for the task so normally 20 mm thick and the joists should be spaced no wider than 400 mm centres.
Engineered oak boards as a structural floor in this situation the engineered oak boards are fixed by secret nailing see below them to your timber joists to form a new floor or to replace existing floor boards.
To acclimatise engineered flooring leave the boxes closed and flat in the room of installation in piles of 3.
Leave at least 4cm between all the piles to ensure that the air can circulate around each box.
Squeeze the tongue and grooves together tightly and remove any excess adhesive.
Glue down bond by far the best method of installing our engineered wood flooring is to glue bond it directly to the floor screed using ms polymer floor adhesive.
Once you have reached the wall measure cut and fit the last board into place and add a spacer.
The most common way to install engineered click flooring is to loose lay or float it over an underlay.
Glueing method engineered oak flooring.
Secret nail this can be over any wooden subfloor using a tool called a porta nailer.
In this particular floor fit the hakwood bonneval engineered oak boards were fitted by glueing them to the sub floor which had an underfloor heating system already installed.
It takes 5 7 days to acclimate an engineered wood floor to a room.
The top layer of the board is made from high quality engineered oak giving the look of solid wood and adding a luxurious touch to a room.
Drill a hole about 16mm larger in diameter than the pipe and make two angle saw cuts from the board edge to the sides of the hole to cut a wedge out of the board.
The suitable fitting methods for our engineered tongue and groove wood flooring are as follows.
Keep the boards in the sealed unopened boxes for at least 48 hours laying flat in a room with a temperature of at least 18 c and on a floor surface temperature of at least 15 c.
Before you even think about beginning the installation of your engineered floor the flooring should be acclimatised to the climate of the room in which it is being fitted.