Wood flooring installation methods

Real hardwood floors should be installed onto a dry, flat, sound sub floor. We recommend that solid wood floors be fitted directly to the sub floor using one of two methods:

- glued directly to the sub floor
- or 'secret nailed' at an angle into the tongue of the tongue and groove

Real engineered wood flooring is usually installed using one of the following three methods:

- glued directly onto the sub floor
- secret nailed at an angle into the tongue of the tongue and groove (20mm + boards)
- or 'floated' using a suitable underlay material and DPM sheet where necessary.

Each of these is explained in more detail in the links below:

> Bonded wood floor (full stick down)
> Secret nailed wood floor
> Floated wood floor

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