Diy Plywood Plank Flooring Over Concrete

With plywood subfloor that s totally enough.

Diy plywood plank flooring over concrete.

It can be constructed from wood plywood plastic or concrete. Diy farmhouse wide plank plywood floor. The installation process calls for using a floating plywood sub floor. However due to the cost of the adhesives it can be slightly cheaper to use the plywood method.

It s also possible to install carlisle floors over concrete slabs with radiant heat. This project was the truest sense of diy. Moisture levels in concrete floors. Moisture will get through so even if you don t add an additional underlay you do need to seal the concrete.

So technically if you are installing vinyl plank flooring onto concrete you already have a subfloor. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. This flooring has underlay attached. Our plywood pretty week is coming to a close and there s one topic we haven t covered yet.

Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. However some people prefer to add another thin layer of subflooring between the concrete and vinyl. However a new concrete floor contains a lot of moisture. If you re installing plywood over an existing dry concrete floor you shouldn t have any problem.

First i head over to my local home depot to scope out the different types of plywood. While we love our hardwood floors we know that not every diyer has the budget and if we re keeping it real not every project is worth the splurge for higher end flooring we ve talked about and heard from our readers over on facebook about plywood plank flooring too. The cost associated with both options for installing wood over concrete is similar. The flooring associate at the home depot canada suggested using vapour barrier with tuck tape to seal the concrete.

Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. Everything from cutting the plywood into wide plank boards to sanding staining finishing and installing the plywood planks down all of it diy. As you d expect diy rustic wide plank plywood flooring takes much longer to finish than just installing pre made planks. So you need to allow it to cure for at least 60 days before even bothering to check the moisture level.

We love the varied wood grain texture of the plywood the different tones of white we got by white washing some planks more than others and the old school look of the 8 width of the planks with the slight gaps in between. The garage has been here many years ive lived in it 3 years. I chose to use standard 1 2 thick 4 x 8 sheets at a cost of just under 20 each. It has cement floors and i want to do the plywood flooring cutting it to look like planks and then polyurethane over it to seal it.

I have wood heat so it stays dry in here.