Timber Flooring Battens Over Concrete
A timber floor should only be installed in a weatherproof building.
Timber flooring battens over concrete. Tongue and groove joints on both sides and ends of the. Experienced professionals pay close attention to managing moisture and minimizing wood floor expansion and contraction when preparing to install hardwood floors on concrete slabs. Timber on the other hand expands and contracts depending on the moisture content of everything from the humidity in the air to the moisture content in the concrete floor. Hardwood timber flooring is guaranteed durable and is low maintenance.
The traditional timber floor is renowned for its strength durability and character. Installing a hardwood floor over a concrete slab. Timber flooring solid strip timber flooring can be fixed direct to joists to sheet subfloors of particleboard or plywood over joists plywood or battens over concrete slabs and in some locations direct fixing to the concrete slab is common. We apply a moisture barrier onto the concrete slab fix the battens down then glue the timber onto the battens.
Even if your home was built on a concrete slab you can still enjoy the beauty and charm of hardwood floors. Plank on battens is mainly used in renovations where the client wants hollow sounding floors to match existing 19mm boards nailed onto joists. Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. Installing hardwood flooring on top of a concrete slab shouldn t be a complicated process.
The floor height will be 54 mm so the concrete sub floor will need to be lowered. It is not a good idea to lay polythene on the slab it will encourage condensation. However without any knowledge of its installation it can easily be a nightmare for you. Concrete whilst having a level of retained moisture expands and contracts with temperature at around the same rate as steel.
Get your local timber merchants to cut your timber to 40mm thickness then you can pack it and lay 40mm x 100mm timbers fixed to the floor then lay your 50mm drytherm fibreglass cavity insulation inbetween then fix 18mmt g chipboard flooring. Joists battens or plywood over concrete or nailed to existing timber flooring. Before installing a timber floor ensure the site conditions are suitable. Timber and concrete are affected by different things.