Floating floor

[Bob Rowlands]

OK yet more comments. The laminate 'click' flooring I see installed here on every job is truly free floating. No glue, no fasteners. It simply lays atop the subfloor like a rug. Some gets laid atop a pad on concrete to soften the feel. Some of these floorings are 1/4" thick and some is 3/8ths thick. My gut tells me these are builder grade, the cheapest stuff that installs real fast and gets the clients in the door.

However I just looked up engineered flooring online. They are extremely popular floorings nowadays. Apparently besides the 'click' variety I see0e all the time, their are versions can be glued down and some that are nailed down. There are also versions that are 1/2" and 5/8ths inches thick. These are engineered plywood flooring, not a solid wood floor, like a strip floor. Supposedly some surfaces are 25 year longevity, as opposed to 10 years for three coat polt on a strip floor. I am not familiar with that type so have no comment about them. What I see on job site are the products I described. The cheap stuff has no plywood core, it looks like plastic core with a thin flexible backing on the bottom. And higher grade, 3/8ths with plywood core, backed and unbacked.

At any rate you might consider spend some time online looking up 'engineered floors' and get not only the manufacturers description but user ratings and reviews. OK I'm really off on this it is out of my field. Good luck.