How To Install A Plywood Floor Over Concrete

Installing plywood over the subfloor or using sleepers which are two by fours laid flat across the floor and used as nailers.

How to install a plywood floor over concrete.

Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. Learn how to install beautiful hardwood floors over a concrete slab.

When installing subflooring over concrete for installation of wood flooring it is necessary to use thicker subflooring so that it can be nailed into. Watch more videos in this series. By admin february 17 2011. Floated subfloor alternate subfloor glue down sub floor and the nail down subfloor system.

How to install a wood subfloor over concrete with screeds. A minimum of 5 8 thick plywood is recommended with 3 4 thick plywood being considered ideal. With the popularity of decorative concrete on the rise many people considering remodeling particularly in the northwest feel like it isn t an option for them simply because they have plywood sub floors. Decorative concrete decorative concrete coatings.

How to install concrete floors over plywood sub floors. In this project tom had to remove old tile and install another layer of 3 4 thick plywood. The following project was executed by tom zilian of madstone floors from boston ma who created a polished concrete floor over a plywood substrate. Because it raises the finished floor by an extra 1 1 2 inches and for other reasons the sleeper method has fallen into disuse.