On the other hand installing floating engineered hardwood flooring is faster to install and cheaper.
How to install floating engineered wood flooring.
Floating snap together flooring is available as engineered flooring which has a veneer of natural wood on top.
When installing a floating engineered hardwood floor it can be tricky to snug up the tongue and groove joints.
It is ideal for installations where adhesives won t work on the existing floor.
The planks glue together to create a floor that floats moves freely as a unit.
Engineered flooring goes down over a thin foam sheet which provides cushioning and sound dampening.
If you already have floor tiles for example or asphalt subfloor.
You can use five gallon buckets of water to put pressure on the floor to keep the boards in place.
Or as laminate flooring which has a hard plastic surface that has been convincingly printed to look like natural wood.