How To Fit Tongue And Groove Flooring

Engineered tongue and groove planks however snap together to create a floating floor.

How to fit tongue and groove flooring. Begin by checking your subfloor for any moisture with a moisture meter. Remove any baseboards as the flooring needs to be installed close to the wall. All four sides of the boards have tongues and grooves for easy fitting.

If your door opens into the room you need to check that you have enough clearance over the new flooring and threshold bar. Continue this step until the whole porch is covered. Next lay the next courses of the planks by knocking the tongue and groove milling together with the planks of the previous course.

If you have decided to install your new engineered timber floor yourself continue reading below for our how-to guide for tongue and groove installation. Tongue and groove flooring has a tongue side that sticks out and a receiving groove side that is indented. For example if you are using a wood subfloor the reading must be 16 mc or below.

Lay down your second board against the wall remembering spacers and fit it into the tongue and groove. The boards are fitted with protruding which is referred to as the tongue and concave which is the groove. Place the underlayment on top of the existing floor or the subfloor as this will.

Similar to the above instructions you need to apply wood adhesive along your woods grooved edges. Undercutting saw only needed if removing carpet Seam tape. Step 2 - Spread Adhesive.

In this video Jason shows us how to float a tongue groove engineered hardwood floor. Glueing To Concrete Floor. Determine which direction you want the flooring to run.