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19mm solid oak flooring.

Posted by Ian Murphy, on
How best to fit a19MM solid oak floor to new chipboard and existing floorboards? Some say secret nail with or without glue, others say bonded to the floor etc etc? Bit confused. Thank you.
Edward Thompson

Edward Thompson

Hi Ian personally I always prefer to lay it as a floating floor as it allows maximum movement, put suitable underlay down and glue tongue and groove joints but do not fix to floor. I have always had good results using this method, the floors that I have seen problems with are the ones that are fixed to the sub floor. Ed

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