Hi all, Interested in hearing your thoughts on my plan on how to tackle my dining room subfloor. It currently has an asphalt layer acting as a dpm on top of original quarry tiles. It dips in places so I intend to self level the room and add an extra layer of liquid DPM using the Ardex sandwich method of Ardex Na and Ardex DPM 1C However the issue is that I am installing solid wood flooring and the manufacturer (woodpecker) has said glueing to latex based self level is not advised. So I thought Id use plywood first and then glue the solid wood flooring to the plywood. Does that sound sensible or can I just put an underlay on top of the self level as the wood would technically be being glued to the underlay, hence no latex issues.... What would be the best way to go about bonding the plywood to the self level? One suggestion to get around the latex bonding issue is to paint the undersides of the plywood with cement and SBR, thus creating an extra layer of DPC and allowing it to be stuck to the ardex na. I know that sounds like overkill but mainly trying to get around the adhesion issues. Thanks
I think your best bet is to take that solid oak back and swap it for some engineered and float it over the dpm sandwich
Ok thanks thats a good idea. I'm stuck with the wood I'm afraid so will probably have to go with something like this. What thickness should I go with? Would 6/9mm be fine?
Solid wood and asphalt is a no go the asphalt is too soft, your option is to dig it out and put in a new concrete base or send the wood back and float an engineered Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Depending on the size of the planks and area you're covering, elastilon(no other brand of the same kind of thing) may be an option
Multitop decoupling board or uniboard or multimoll board, all the same but called something different
