Project: Installation of Timberlay Golden Sunrise Oak Engineered Wood Flooring

Before the works

In this project we have installed dark engineered oak wood flooring in the study room of this Amersham home.

During our free home survey, we did an inspection of the floors and discussed with the client possible flooring options, suitable for the type of their subfloor. We have also explained the role of underlays and the level of sound-proofing and insulation they offer.

Our client decided to go for Timberlay Golden Sunrise Oak over floorboards and we recommended Timbermate Excel Silver underlay with beading around perimeter.

How we did it...

The floor installation began with removal of existing carpet flooring and assessment of the sub-floor level throughout the area for installation. Any areas with movement, dips or bumps in sub-floor can cause bouncing issues with the new installation and should be resolved prior to the fitting.

On this stage we have full access to the subfloor and now we can take moisture readings from the subfloor, the new timber flooring and check the air-humidity, and environment temperature, which all provide the base for our service guarantee.

In this project we have registered that the subfloor level may cause issues and therefore we have recommended installation of 12 mm flooring-grade plywood, prior for installation of the new flooring on top.

As with all floating flooring installation we start with laying the underlay. The underlay plays an important role in the good flooring installation. It improves the thermal insulation of the rooms, reduces the impact noise and air-borne noise and it helps compensate minor differences in the level of the subfloor.

All our engineered flooring installations will flow across all rooms without the need of thresholds (door bars). To do so, we may start with a main line originating from hallway or corridor, going into one or more rooms. Therefore, it is always best empty rooms of furniture as much as possible, prior to the floor works.

In this project we have removed one doors and trimmed the height, to allow for the new level of the floor. Doors frames were trimmed to the correct height as well and the planks were inserted below the frames.

Every few rows of planks are glued & strapped together, with an expansion gap of approx. 8 - 10 mm left on perimeter of the walls. The expansion gap in this project was covered by solid white scotia beading.

Final touch of the installation was the skillfully sized profile at the door to join existing timber flooring on landing with the room.