Laminate Wood Flooring Underlayment
#1
Laminate Wood Flooring Underlayment
I am getting ready to install about 1300 square feet of 8mm Kronotex laminate flooring on the second floor of my house. The subfloor is plywood.
The instructions call for a 6-mil (0.2mm) polyethylene film as a moisture barrior to be put down first.
The tools and supplies section calls for both the 6-mil (0.2mm) polyethylene film and a sound and thermal insulating underlayment. Is the sounds and thermal insulating underlayment necessary?
I am not so concerned about avoiding the costs. I have previously installed a 7mm laminate product with the foam underlayment and I am not happy with the foamy feel of the floor. I am not sure if this spongy feel is coming from the 7mm product or that foam underlayment.
Does anyone know if both the plastic and the foam are required, or if I can just use the plastic? I am thinking that the foam underlayment may cause the new floor to feel spongy as the old 7mm product did.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
The instructions call for a 6-mil (0.2mm) polyethylene film as a moisture barrior to be put down first.
The tools and supplies section calls for both the 6-mil (0.2mm) polyethylene film and a sound and thermal insulating underlayment. Is the sounds and thermal insulating underlayment necessary?
I am not so concerned about avoiding the costs. I have previously installed a 7mm laminate product with the foam underlayment and I am not happy with the foamy feel of the floor. I am not sure if this spongy feel is coming from the 7mm product or that foam underlayment.
Does anyone know if both the plastic and the foam are required, or if I can just use the plastic? I am thinking that the foam underlayment may cause the new floor to feel spongy as the old 7mm product did.
Thanks in advance for your thoughts.
#3
Only if the laminate has attached cushion.
If not, use what the manufacture recomends to maintain your full warranty.
One manufacturers brand of laminate does not install like other manufacturers, so if you lump laminate all together, thinking I have installed laminate before, your in for a suprise when the failure happens and the manufacturer says installation error, NO WARRANTY.
Every different laminate has something different in the installation specs, from one another.
If not, use what the manufacture recomends to maintain your full warranty.
One manufacturers brand of laminate does not install like other manufacturers, so if you lump laminate all together, thinking I have installed laminate before, your in for a suprise when the failure happens and the manufacturer says installation error, NO WARRANTY.
Every different laminate has something different in the installation specs, from one another.