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.

Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet. Consider both load bearing capacity and deflective properties when selecting subfloor materials. Because we re laying the plywood onto the existing floorboards we didn t want anything that was too thick so that we d. Because you can install sheet vinyl over existing vinyl it offers the option of changing design without breaking the bank.

This also applies to joists depth. Economy at the current price of 36 per sheet that just a little over 1 per square foot. 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. If you re installing a plywood floor on floorboards make sure to install your new planks of wood at a 90 angle to the existing floorboards.

Vinyl flooring is usually not installed directly over the subfloor in residential applications. The plywood sheets lay perpendicular to the floor joists. Typical floor joists in residential construction sit on 16 inch centers but depending on the framing the joists might be. 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.