Hi
I’m going to lay a new floor in our living room soon. It’s about 32 square metres (8m x 4m) and it’s on bone dry 50 year old concrete, the skirting is coming off to make a decent job of it as well.
We’ve pretty much settled on going for an engineered wood floor as I understand that this is more stable than solid wood. We have found one we like the look of and it’s 18mm thick, with a 5mm oak layer on top (oiled finish), but (and there’s always one isn’t there?) it’s tongue and groove whereas I was looking for a click fit type for ease of laying.
Now the questions for the floorist’s amongst us…
1) Can I lay this as a floating floor on 3mm underlay?
2) If the floating option is a non-starter and I have to glue it to the floor roughly how much adhesive do I need?
3) What adhesive to use?
4) How do I finish the floor off where it butts up against the french doors at the end of the room?
5) What oil to get to give it a coat once the floor is laid?
Thanks
Spursn17