Aligns the floor with plywood

This article will look at how to align the old floor with plywood under the laminate, as an example we take two basic grounds: wooden and concrete.

use plywood as a leveling layer under the floor finish is considered by the right economical and proven method.

technology arrangement with dry screed plywood does not require considerable effort and large monetary investments.

Since leveled floor can be a short period of time and not have to wait for ripening screed, eventually repair the floor surface is carried out without delay.

Aligning the wooden base can be done in two ways: on the crate, and without it.What technology is most suitable for leveling your floor under a laminate, you decide.

Alignment wood floor with plywood for sheathing

Alignmentwood floor with plywood on the joists under the laminate provides for the dismantling of the old coating, including floors and boards lying on joists.

After the boards are removed, it is necessary to inspect the log, perhaps some of them will have to be replaced with your own hands, or simply reinforce with anchor bolts.

If you want to raise the height of the floor in the house at a certain level, it is possible to completely get rid of the worn-out log and establish new, pre-defined with the desired step size.

It is best to use for the installation log beams of softwood trees.First of all make the harness on the perimeter of the room, leaving a gap in the wall temperature of 50-100 mm.

then equip the working area of ​​the longitudinal beams with a distance of not more than 60 cm. Supervise the correct horizontal log construction with the help of the level.

Plywood secured to the bars so that the butt joint sheets rested on the support.It is impossible to

seams leveling layer hung in the air.If the boards were stacked crates with a big step, it is necessary to supplement the support base cross beams.

Thus, the smaller the size of the reference cell floor, the better will align with their own hands under the base laminate.

Before moving to laying plywood, it is recommended to arrange vapor barrier and heat the floor.

First laid warming layer, as it is possible to use a polystyrene board or mineral wool.Over it equips with overlapping vapor barrier on the wall.

Installing plywood sheets on the boards:

• Given the irregularities of the walls, monitor angle and adjusted to fit the parameters of the extreme sheets of plywood;Mounting
• veneer spend in the run so as to avoid the formation of a cruciform joint of four sheets.In this case between the products should remain a temperature gap of about 2 mm;
• Indent plywood covering the wall must be at least 20 mm.Clearance is subsequently masked plinth;
• Fixing plywood to joists by using screws.The length of fastener rod is calculated by multiplying the width of the sheet on figure 3;
• holes for screws pre-Zenko, which will completely drown their hats in the plywood plane;
• Laying plywood on the lathing is done stripes.Krepjat sheets in increments of 20 cm between the fasteners;
• If necessary, the extreme elements of the floor jigsaw cut gasket communications, or adjusted in accordance with the protruding parts of the wall;
• After installation of plywood for sheathing completed zashpaklevyvayut irregularities.

In addition to the foregoing materials offer watch a video on how to align the wood floor with plywood.

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Alignment wood base under the laminate without lag

Align the wooden floor surface is quite possible and without lag.We can assume this technology in existence, the easiest way to align the floor under the laminate.

In this case, no need to spend time on the dismantling of the old surface and the mounting lag.

addition to plywood, wood flooring can be aligned using a cement-bonded particle boards or gypsum floor.

alignment surface is not recommended with the use of MDF as a basis the minimum wavy swings adversely affect the finish.

It will sink under the weight and shape with time.

To align the plank floor you must choose the right thickness of the plywood.

If the floorboards have a width of about 20 cm, the thickness of the product can be equal to 10 mm;floorboards with a width of more than 20 cm - thickness of the plywood should be about 20 mm.

Installing plywood sheets without lag:

• From the walls need to pull back 20 mm to the right to form the indentation, it is necessary to put on the perimeter of the floor mounting lugs;
• When installing the sheets between them is necessary to keep the temperature gap of 3-8 mm, which is reached depreciation of rolling stock when changing humidity indicator;
• During installation under laminate plywood is recommended to simulate brickwork.That is, each page should be laid offset from the previous number of sheets.The minimum value of the offset is equal to ¼ of the veneer, the maximum option - is half the width of the product.Avoid cross-shaped joints seams four products;
• fixing sheets to the wooden floor with their hands, you need to correctly distribute the attachment points.It is necessary to focus on the step height difference between the identified during the preliminary measurement.More details in the video below the proposed plot;
• Hole Wizard doing a advance in several stages.First, a hole is drilled by a drill bit with a diameter corresponding to the size of the screw.Then, the finished hole countersinks to mounting cap after screwing stood at a plywood sheet plane.
  All openings, which should be located on the perimeter of the sheet, make their own hands with a space from the edge of not less than 20 mm.

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Leveling concrete underlayment plywood

Align the concrete floor under the laminate can be using different alignment technology, but the technique with the use of plywood is the most pure and simple.After all, in other cases, do without concrete works.

Depending on the evenness of the concrete base is chosen version of the final alignment of the surface of the plywood under the laminate.

technology may provide a lag method or leveling floor without lag structure.

Leveling concrete base without lag - the best option for the relatively flat tie, drop it horizontally may be no more than 1-1.5 cm

veneer sheets are glued onto the concrete floor special adhesive substance is then further fastened dowel-nails..

The same principle with his own hands made the alignment of the concrete floor with chipboard.

main thing is that the basis on which is mounted a leveling layer, it was solid and smooth.

alignment coupler crate is required to raise the concrete floor or horizontal surface when the drop heights if necessary, more than 1.5 cm

Leveling concrete screed by beams, provides the following series of actions:.

• First of all, it is necessary to conduct training base inwhich resulted in the screed must be completely clean and dry;
• Along the perimeter of the room using a builder's level, define the boundaries of the future of flooring;
• customized to fit the size of the boards, as the future support structure using products from softwood.Logs can be purchased at hardware store, but as a rule, they are not always well dried.For the construction of the rough fundamentals fit completely dried wood, otherwise the design can twist.Suitable materials parameters are indicators 40h100 mm;
• workflow also prepare wooden pads the following dimensions: width - 100-150 mm;length - 200 mm;thickness - 250 mm;
• Mounting bars must be carried out transverse aperture door increments of 40-50 cm indent from the wall should be 20-30 mm, it is made in order to eliminate the floor deformation due to temperature fluctuations.;
• controlling the evenness mountable design and its compliance with the intended height of the floor of the future, in the uneven places enclose wooden wedges;
• Thus between each element (wooden wedges, pads, logs) to be installed in the soft sound insulation layer, a piece of linoleum or polyethylene foam;
• Laghi is mounted on the perimeter of the room, and then attach them to the cross beams.Void finished crates filled with heat-insulating layer, which is used as mineral wool or basalt.As a result, the floors are not only insulated but also silent;
• then transferred to laying plywood sheets, they should be well dried, and for ease of installation dissolved into squares 75x75 cm. Products are mounted on the bars with screws with a temperature gap of 2-3 mm.

completed and details complement the above information themed video story.

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