Too Much Glue Hardwood To Concrete

Spread only enough glue for an hour s work at least until you re more comfortable with the process.

Too much glue hardwood to concrete.

Once the glue dries it s much harder to remove. You don t want the adhesive drying before you can get to that area. Clean up any glue as you go. Solid hardwood should not be glued to a concrete slab.

Use the trowel to get adhesive all over the starting corner. Gluing down solid wood flooring to concretethis is a question that i have started to receive more and more. Ken fisher is a flooring contractor in bonita springs fla. A glue down installation requires premium wood adhesives be properly troweled over the concrete slab and the engineered wood planks laid onto the adhesive and locked together at their tongue and groove joints.

They use too much adhesive thinking that more is better and the panels will be more secure this way. My answer to that is yes and it is still warranted. Photos by charles bickford except where noted. Let me also go on record with 17 years experience installing hardwood flooring this is a bad idea.

Only spread the adhesive over small areas ahead of you at any given time. This is a common mistake with newcomers to the do it yourself hardwood flooring field. They also require. But the catch is that the solid wood flooring we have that can be glued over concrete and warranted is 5 16 and 7 16 solid hardwood not 3 4 solid hardwood and can be only on on grade and suspended concrete.

We have scraped and vacuumed and the concrete seems ready for the new glue for our subfloor sound deadening mat to which the 5 8 x 5 engineered oak floor will be glued. Glue down hardwood floors on concrete. Clean up as you go. Glue is a secondary method of attachment for bonding wood to concrete.

Installing engineered hardwood flooring over concrete too tight against a stationary object will not allow room for normal expansion and may cause a failure. When glue is used in conjunction with screws and nails the bond is strong enough to resist natural movement of the wood. Engineered hardwood is perfectly suited to do the job and there is no reason to glue down solid hardwood. Glue forms the initial bond but without screws and nails the natural expansion and contraction of the wood can break or weaken the glue.

Wood adhesives recommended today are much more environmentally friendly than in the past but they cost more. Concrete has a dull black finish that i think is from the previous glue that was used 1966 and has some remnant dust from the homosote.