How To Lay Floating Bamboo Flooring On Concrete

There are four different ways to install plank style bamboo flooring and only one way to install parquet block bamboo.

How to lay floating bamboo flooring on concrete.

Set spacers between the planks and the wall to maintain the 1 4 inch gap. Installing parquet block bamboo flooring. Place a level on the concrete at several areas. 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.

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. Set 1 2 inch plastic spacers next to the longest wall and along the adjacent walls. 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. The floor must be completely flat before installing the bamboo.

As you join planks end to end spread a small amount. Gluing the floor down to a concrete or wood subfloor. Assemble the bamboo flooring end to end snapping the ends together as you go. Move the plank gently up and down while pushing forward.

Trowel the adhesive directly onto the concrete floor working in sections and lay the bamboo planks directly on top. Position the plank at a 20 30 angle to the plank already installed. Floating the floor using uniclic flooring. Place the grooved side of bamboo planks against the spacers.

Secret nailing the floor down to a wood subfloor. My first video upload of one of my many home improvement jobs. Floating the floor using tongue and groove flooring not parquet block 2. Open up the bamboo flooring and lay it on the concrete for 48 to 72 hours.

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. Pour a self leveling floor compound onto the concrete to fill any low areas in the.