I need some advise for securing closet door tracks to a laminate floor. For the upstairs I can drill through the laminate and install the tracks with screws. Downstairs the laminate is installed over a concrete slab. I'm not really sure what the best way is to secure the tracks. Should I drill through the laminate and into the concrete for some tapcons or similar? Can I just glue the track to the laminate with some construction adhesive? Any ideas?
But if you use screws, then the laminate is fixed to the floor underneath, which I thought was a no-no. Aren't laminate floors supposed to "float?"
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Myself, I'd screw into the slab.
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If the floor is attached in a single point (roughly) there shouldn't be much problem as you're not constricting it from moving out in all directions. If it were a problem I could always drill an oversized hole through the laminate, say 1/2" or so, and then drive the screw into the subfloor through the middle. That way the floor can "float" a little without hinderance.
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