How Do You Glue A Wood Floor Over A Concrete Slab?
Tongue and groove wood flooring is usually nailed down over a wood subfloor, but if your subfloor is a concrete slab, you’ll need to use a different installation technique. When laying a wood floor on concrete, you’ll need to glue down the floor. You don’t need special tools as you do with a nail-down floor, but you do need to make sure the flooring you buy is rated by the manufacturer to allow glue-down installation. Make sure the slab is clean and dry before you start. Use a hammer and pry bar to remove the floor trim in the room. Don’t break it as you remove it. Set it aside. Use your notched trowel to spread floor adhesive along the floor by the wall where you want to start. Don’t start on the side of the room near the doorway. Spread the adhesive along the whole length of the floor, coming about two feet out from the wall. Set your first floorboards into place, with the grooved sides facing the wall. Put wall spacers between the boards and the wall as you lay them. This will creat
