I just put flooring in a walkout basement on a concrete slab.
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Background. Homes built on concrete slabs are good candidates for solid wood flooring, provided that the slab does not wick up too much moisture. There are many options for covering your concrete basement floor in order to improve the look of the basement.
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The wood is attached to plywood panels, which allows engineered wood to be installed directly onto concrete. However, the wooden exterior walls are gapping away from the concrete floor/base. Either way, though, yes, you want to separate the base plate from the bare concrete.
Engineered wood flooring is similar to laminate, but it uses real wood.
Made of layers of composite wood sealed with adhesives, engineered wood is less prone to swelling and. When installing a basement hardwood floor, the concrete must be flat so the tongue and grooves of the hardwood meet and connect. What is the best way to seal gaps that have opened. The wood flooring itself is installed in this case with a polyurethane flooring adhesive, troweled onto the floor, rather than installed with fasteners, as the nails normally used for installing hardwood floors aren't strong enough to nail into concrete.
