How To Lay Plywood Flooring

Vinyl flooring is usually not installed directly over the subfloor in residential applications.

How to lay plywood flooring.

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. In most cases 4 by 8 foot sheets of particle board or plywood must be installed in preparation for the vinyl floor install. Typical floor joists in residential construction sit on 16 inch centers but depending on the framing the joists might be. Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet.

Because you can install sheet vinyl over existing vinyl it offers the option of changing design without breaking the bank. Here are our top 3 tips if you re thinking of installing a plywood floor. Economy at the current price of 36 per sheet that just a little over 1 per square foot. 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.

The plywood sheets lay perpendicular to the floor joists. Consider both load bearing capacity and deflective properties when selecting subfloor materials. First i ll briefly go over my reasons for using it. 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.