How To Lay Floating Bamboo Flooring On Concrete

Installing parquet block bamboo flooring.

How to lay floating bamboo flooring on concrete.

Open up the bamboo flooring and lay it on the concrete for 48 to 72 hours. Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood subfloor. If you are using bamboo flooring with a click fitting system then just glue the planks to the concrete as you click them into place. Set spacers between the planks and the wall to maintain the 1 4 inch gap.

Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block. Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. As you join planks end to end spread a small amount. Depending on the type of locking system that comes with your glueless click bamboo floor you can install the planks one of two different ways or sometimes both varies by manufacturer.

Move the plank gently up and down while pushing forward. The floor must be completely flat before installing the bamboo. Set 1 2 inch plastic spacers next to the longest wall and along the adjacent walls. Lay out the planks for the first row calculate the length of the last plank and cut it with a saw remembering to allow for a 1 4 inch expansion gap at both ends of the row.

Make sure you have a tube of bostik adhesive remover wipes handy to clean up glue spills asap because letting the glue cure on top of the flooring planks will damage the finish. Position the plank at a 20 30 angle to the plank already installed. Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor. If you are using bamboo flooring with a tongue and groove profile then you just fit the tongue and grooves together and glue the planks to the concrete subfloor.

Pour a self leveling floor compound onto the concrete to fill any low areas in the. My first video upload of one of my many home improvement jobs. Place a level on the concrete at several areas. Place the grooved side of bamboo planks against the spacers.

Use a moisture test kit to ascertain the level of moisture in the floor and therefore the amount of time the bamboo planks should be laid out on the concrete. Floating the floor using uniclic flooring.