How To Install Floating Engineered Wood Flooring

Engineered flooring goes down over a thin foam sheet which provides cushioning and sound dampening.

How to install floating engineered wood flooring.

You need to leave a 5 16 inch gap between the flooring and the baseboard or wall around the perimeter of the room to allow the floor enough space to expand. Be careful not to spill any of the water as you don t want to add any moisture to the flooring. When installing a floating engineered hardwood floor it can be tricky to snug up the tongue and groove joints. Floating snap together flooring is available as engineered flooring which has a veneer of natural wood on top.

You can use five gallon buckets of water to put pressure on the floor to keep the boards in place. The planks glue together to create a floor that floats moves freely as a unit. If you already have floor tiles for example or asphalt subfloor. Or as laminate flooring which has a hard plastic surface that has been convincingly printed to look like natural wood.