Re: Solid wood floors over concrete.

[Ben Blaukopf]

=A0 =A0 =A0Thanks for the helpful replies to my earlier question about ho= use

> buying and surveyors; in the end I've made an offer on a house without > employing a surveyor. I gave it a thorough looking over and talked to > neighbours on the same estate and judged that I would rely on my own > observations. > =A0 =A0 =A0I'm thinking about laying a solid oak floor in the lounge. At > present it is carpeted. Has anyone done this? > =A0 =A0 =A0The Wickes' website has a video showing how easy it is! The ju= st > cover the floor with a 5mm fibre underlay and then lay the tongued and > grooved planks on to of this, just using glue on the t & g joints and > leaving an expansion gap all round.

You might well need a DPM as well. You will need a level floor - and your existing one is almost certainly not level enough.

[Phil L]

I've used the sticky stuff, but this was going over a wooden suspended floor. It's a bit tricky to start with, getting the cellophane off the sticky bit, and then you need an overlap, lay 3 or 4 boards and then pull the overlap from undernath, to expose the underside of the boards to the adhesive. It's not like laying laminate flooring - the boards come in about 5 or 6 different lengths and they are T&G, the chap I laid them for got them off the interweb, but I'm not sure where.