Can you install new hardwood on old hardwood?
I just came home from a flooring store and he said it would be a big no no to install new 3/4" solid oak hardwood flooring over old 3/4" solid oak hardwood flooring.
He said within a year it would be the loudest, squeakiest, flooring you'd ever walk on. ("If you get up at midnight to get a drink of water, it will be so loud that everybody will get up at midnight")
Now my fiance is all paranoid that the floor is going to be squeaky. And she is also afraid that a floated engineered floor over it will be hollow sounding.
He also said that with 2 layers of hardwood flooring you would have even more movement of the floor and that the finish would develop cracks in the near future.
He suggested floating an engineered hardwood floor over the old hardwood floor.
The 3/4" hardwood is currently laid on diagonal 1x6 dimensional lumber.
If i screw down all the squeaky parts of the old wood floor would it be ok?
I just came home from a flooring store and he said it would be a big no no to install new 3/4" solid oak hardwood flooring over old 3/4" solid oak hardwood flooring.
He said within a year it would be the loudest, squeakiest, flooring you'd ever walk on. ("If you get up at midnight to get a drink of water, it will be so loud that everybody will get up at midnight")
Now my fiance is all paranoid that the floor is going to be squeaky. And she is also afraid that a floated engineered floor over it will be hollow sounding.
He also said that with 2 layers of hardwood flooring you would have even more movement of the floor and that the finish would develop cracks in the near future.
He suggested floating an engineered hardwood floor over the old hardwood floor.
The 3/4" hardwood is currently laid on diagonal 1x6 dimensional lumber.
If i screw down all the squeaky parts of the old wood floor would it be ok?