When you install bamboo flooring you must have a sub floor that will stay dry year round.
How to install bamboo flooring on wood subfloor.
Solid bamboo hardwood flooring is installed like any hardwood flooring.
If you have a wood sub floor make sure that the moisture content does not exceed 12.
There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo.
Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2.
Sand down any high spots until they are completely level.
Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor.
Engineered bamboo usually installed as a floating floor system with click together planks laid over a cushiony foam pad.
It can be nailed stapled and or glued to a solid subfloor or an existing hardwood floor in good condition.
For dips in the floor you ll want to use a self leveling compound and make sure to let it dry sufficiently before proceeding with the flooring installation.
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.
Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.
A concrete sub floor requires less than three pounds of moisture emission per square foot and you must use a 3 in 1 underlayment under a floating floor.