Things You'll Need:
- Engineered Wood Floor kit
- Wood floor adhesive (For glue down flooring)
- Sander/Grinder
- Patching compound and trowel
- Broom, mop, dustpan, vacuum cleaner
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Step 1
First, determine which type of flooring installation you would prefer: floating floor or glue down floor?
A floating floor is simply flooring that is not glued or nailed down. It is the easiest method of installing flooring.
A glue down floor, as the name implies, is flooring that is glued to the floor below (in this case, the tiles). With modern engineered wood flooring it usually isn't necessary to glue the floor down unless you will have heavy furniture and objects resting on the floor. A glue down floor requires additional preparation of the tile surface.
Next, select and purchase your flooring kit (see links below for a list of suggested flooring manufacturers). -
Step 2
Floating floor preparation:
Sweep and mop tiled surface and fill in any large holes or cracks in the tile with patching compound.
If your tile floor is very uneven, you should use a sander/grinder to smooth out your tile floor's surface.
Glue down floor preparation:
Sweep and mop tiled surface and fill in any large holes or cracks in the tile with patching compound.
Use a grinder/sander on the tiles to make the tile surface as level as possible and to abrade the tiles so that the glue will stick firmly to the tiles.
When finished with sanding, remove all dust and debris with a broom or vacuum cleaner. -
Step 3
Trim door casings: allow the new flooring to fit underneath the bottoms of door casings by trimming them.
Place a piece of the new flooring against the door casing and carefully lay a handsaw on top. Carefully saw through the casing and remove the sawed off bottom. Repeat with every door casing in the room.
When finished, remove all dust and debris with a broom or vacuum cleaner. -
Step 4
Floating flooring: assemble your floating flooring by following the directions that came with your particular engineered wood flooring product.
Glue down flooring: starting a in corner of the room, use a grout trowel to apply hardwood floor adhesive to a portion of the floor, then immediately lay a portion of your flooring by following the directions that came with your engineered wood flooring product.
Only lay down just enough floor adhesive at a time, that will allow you to lay down flooring before the adhesive dries.
