How To Install Solid Bamboo Wood Floors

Engineered bamboo usually installed as a floating floor system with click together planks laid over a cushiony foam pad.

How to install solid bamboo wood floors.

Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor. Hardwood flooring installation is a big project but you can install solid hardwood floors yourself to save money with this step by step video. 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. 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.

In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood. You must determine the amount of moisture in the plywood. If your current subfloor is concrete you will only be able to install engineered flooring not solid hardwood. 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.

Shaw s engineered products are made with either a plywood core or a high density fiberboard core. To learn how to do this watch prepping plywood subfloors. Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood.

It can be nailed stapled and or glued to a solid subfloor or an existing hardwood floor in good condition. Floating the floor using uniclic flooring. This can easily be done using a moisture test kit which is available at hardware and super stores. A common complaint with bamboo hardwood floors is that while they re really resilient to dings and scratches once they re installed the tongues on them can be really brittle so installing them typically requires gluing them down rather than nailing them down which can be a little messy and challenging.

Step 1 measure moisture content.