Plywood Or Hardwood Under Carpet

Before you install your plywood subfloor first calculate the room s square footage to find out how much flooring you ll need to buy.

Plywood or hardwood under carpet.

Under some circumstances osb may flex underfoot when installed under carpet or vinyl flooring. It is an ideal building material for subfloors. If you can feel a soft spot in the floor under the carpet the subfloor has likely been weakened or damaged. There is usually no appreciable difference in the performance characteristics of plywood or osb subfloors.

While hardwood is solid all the way through plywood consists of multiple thicknesses of thin wood veneer layered at angles and then glued and compressed under heat to form a strong laminated. Hardwood floors are commonly 3 4 inch thick tongue and groove boards. Carpet padding does not provide enough support for hardwood floors and is often too thick for nail installation. Do this by multiplying the room s length by its width.

Depends what the issue is with existing floor boards really flooring ply is usually 5 5mm thick cheapest way of buying is in large standard board sheet 8x4 foot in old money or 1220x2440mm. Finally if you want to glue down your hardwood floor do not use an underlayment. The key to a beautiful long lasting hardwood or laminate floor is a well prepared subfloor. Peek inside the opening to look at the type of wood that lies in the gap.

This isn t the same as having a floor squeak when you step on it which simply indicates that the subfloor isn t tightly fastened to the floor joist in one area. Plywood is only one type of underlayment. When it comes to subfloors that go down on top of the floor joists between the joists and the finish material plywood is the preferred choice. This usually occurs if joist spacing is a wide 24 inches rather than the standard 16 inches.

Firstly i think you mean differance between ply and hardboard not hardwood hardboard is much cheaper but is more flexible and a softer material.