I have plans to install a Brazilian Teak engineered hardwood floor in my kitchen which is a concrete slab. I live in California (Simi Valley), so I'm not too concerened with extreme shifts in weather. I have removed all of the cabinets and was wondering what is the best way to install the floor. Can I glue it directly to the slab, or do I need to put down a subfloor and if so, how do I go about doing that?
make sure the floor is flat and level according to manufacturer specs.
install a 6 mil poly over the slab.
float the wood over the top of the poly.
make sure you install cabs first.
I don't know how thick this flooring is, but be careful not to trap the dishwasher.
Sometimes adding tile, wood flooring, etc. will build the floor up enough so that a dw can't be removed from a fixed cabinet base, and then the flooring has to be cut out in order to remove and replace it.
Mike
When glueing full sheets of plywood to a concrete slab how would one get all of the edges of the plywood to flush-up on the surface while the glue is setting-up? Of course if the concrete was perfectly plane this wouldn't be an issue but how often does one see a "perfectly plane" concrete slab? So.....how is this done?
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