Hardwood floor nowadays is manufactured as tongue and groove and quickly installed with a nail gun and standard 1 75 length nails.
Plywood on top of hardwood carpet.
But plywood s softer surface has a tendency to chip and dent making the final application of a hard top coating vital to the success of your floor.
Plywood floors are suitable for any room.
We have done this twice now because we moved and it has never shifted or caused any problem.
Installing carpeting over a hardwood floor is not a difficult task but it does require some physical labor.
I hope that helps.
How to lay carpet without harming hardwood.
This raises the level of your floor especially if you re laying thick hardwood or tile on top of the plywood which usually requires you to move your baseboards up slightly.
There will be way to much flex and give even with plywood.
I understand that i should install a plywood layer over the original lay in order to enable the planks to be installed lengthwise.
Hardwood floor is 0 75 thick.
Run the flat edge of a stair tool along.
I have a second story floor that was carpet over plywood subfloor.
It stays in place under the weight of the laminate especially when you add furniture on top of that.
There are some sound dampening underlayments made of cork or rubber to limit noise transmission under wood or tile flooring but it sounds like you have been told no on that already so i think you may be stuck.
If you re nailing at a 45 degree angle this would be a total of 1 before you get to the plywood 0 75 x sqrt 2.
Do this by multiplying the room s length by its width.
Plywood underlayment is a thin plywood material that is most commonly used under resilient flooring materials such as vinyl and linoleum sheets and tiles.
Don t even try to put flooring on top of 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.
Thanks for the info.
The key to a beautiful long lasting hardwood or laminate floor is a well prepared subfloor.