How Do You Lay Floating Wood Floor?
Installing a genuine hardwood floor is at least a week’s worth of hard, dusty work, requiring special tools and skills. A floating wood floor is something the average homeowner can do in an afternoon with standard tools like a miter saw and tape measure. Floating floors are prefinished boards that clip together without nails or glue and sit unattached on a foam underlayment. They can go directly over almost any existing floor material except carpeting. Use your hammer and prybar to remove the floor trim in the room. Take it out carefully so you can re-install it later. Roll out your foam underlayment on the floor alongside the longest wall, cutting it at the end with your razor knife. Lay the second row alongside the first, taping them together with your flooring tape. Continue until the whole floor is covered with the foam underlayment. Measure the width of the room and divide it by the width of a floorboard to determine how many floorboards will be needed to span the room. If the fin
