Cement Floor Over Wood Subfloor

Learn how to install beautiful hardwood floors over a concrete slab.

Cement floor over wood subfloor.

Floated subfloor alternate subfloor glue down sub floor and the nail down subfloor system. Lay 6 mil polyethylene sheeting over the concrete to minimize moisture migration from the concrete up into the wood flooring. Metal lath stapled over plywood substrate the installation of calcium aluminate cement based self leveling concrete param 5500 along with expanded metal lath for reinforcement is a successful fast track method to convert a plywood subfloor into a beautiful concrete floor. When it comes to solid wood both strip and plank flooring are acceptable as long as they are in good condition.

To install any kind of floor covering engineered wood laminate carpeting basement subflooring is required. Use corrosion resistant nails or screws to attach the cement backer board to the plywood subfloor. A particleboard subfloor is not recommended for a concrete finished floor. Concrete or tile over concrete are acceptable floors for uninhabited basements.

In many homes plywood was chosen as a flooring substrate and applying concrete over plywood gives you more options for using what you already have. Rather than tear out a wooden floor and installing concrete your wooden floor can be turned into a beautiful concrete floor with a concrete microtopping. The concrete was specified to reach 3 500 psi at 28 days with a water cementitious ratio of 0 45 and a max. We had a similar concrete floor with radiant tubing and the wire mesh attached to spacers just floated over the top of the tubing.

Before installing ceramic tile on a plywood subfloor it s important to put down a layer of cement backer board first. Ceramic tile makes a durable flooring material that resists moisture and heavy traffic if it s installed properly. Treated plywood to the concrete with concrete screws spaced every 16 in. Slump of 4 with shrinking reducing ad mix.

Alternatively screw rows of treated 1x4s to the concrete 16 in. A decorative concrete flooring material can be installed over an existing concrete slab a plywood subfloor or a 3 4 inch solid hardwood flooring.