Installing A Laminate Wood Floor Over Concrete

Many types of flooring can be installed over a concrete sub floor.

Installing a laminate wood floor over concrete.

However many homeowners are disappointed to discover that solid wood flooring cannot be installed on a concrete slab. Installing laminate flooring on concrete steps. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. The planks snap together to form a unit.

Laminate flooring is also fairly easy to install. The laminate floor padding cost is 0 12 to 0 15 12 to 15 cents per square foot. If you ve got concrete stairs to cover the laminate must be glued down using high quality construction glue. Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in.

Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. Laminate flooring is a good alternative to wood flooring in basements. The surface can t be slick heavily troweled or burnished. As needed use a concrete grinder you may want to rent one to remove any coating and to slightly roughen the concrete surface so the adhesive will stick.