Diy Plywood Plank Floor Over Concrete

Use 10 low quality sheets for this flooring project.

Diy plywood plank floor over concrete. Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. This project was the truest sense of diy. Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. If you have some experience with installing flooring or are diy hobbyist it shouldn t take you more than a day to install vinyl plank flooring on concrete.

Flat dry kiln dried preservative treated 2 x 4 sleepers in random lengths 18 to 48 can also serve as a nailing base. Diy plywood plank floor. I ve also seen an install where they just completely coated the concrete with flooring glue to act as both a moisture barrier and adhesive. The flooring associate at the home depot canada suggested using vapour barrier with tuck tape to seal the concrete.

Everything from cutting the plywood into wide plank boards to sanding staining finishing and installing the plywood planks down all of it diy. Floating subfloor of 2 layers of plywood secured together over a vapor retarder. This flooring has underlay attached. Diy plywood plank floors quarry orchard featured here shannon installed her plank look plywood flooring in her bonus room above the garage over 6 years ago at the end of 2010 using 6 inch planks of 15 32 plywood.

No fasteners penetrate the retarder or the concrete. Lay the 1x4s perpendicular to the direction you intend to install the floor planks. Install carlisle wide plank floors milled to 1 2 inch thickness by blind nailing and gluing. Moisture will get through so even if you don t add an additional underlay you do need to seal the concrete.

Hardwood floors are durable low maintenance and easy to clean. Surface dimensional stability of plywood makes it a perfect candidate for wood flooring will always be even and less susceptible to water. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. Concrete slab with plywood sub floor 1 1 2 inches or more height allowance.

Using a hilti direct fastening tool shoot concrete nails into 1 2 inch plywood to apply directly onto concrete. For a subtle and durable finish use the minwax. As you d expect diy rustic wide plank plywood flooring takes much longer to finish than just installing pre made planks. Then nail the flooring planks with a standard flooring nailer see photo for details.

I ve seen hardwood installs over concrete using a floating plywood subfloor with a plastic waffle shaped layer attached on the bottom of the plywood to hold the flooring up off the concrete.