Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Sep 30, 2011 10:38 pm Re: The Unofficial Bamboo Flooring Topic 8Oct 01, 2011 2:48 pm Hi PHL, Besides the obvious that floating floor is easier to remove, it is cheaper and depending on the quality of underlay used, the floors will feel less "hard" to walk on than direct stick flooring. Generally the elderly prefer floating floors as its easier on the joints. Like you said, floating floor is more prone to the "hollow" sounds or creaking. You have to be very pedantic on the levelness of your floor to prevent this, and being floating floor they are more likely to move than when directly stuck. The uniclics are also called click and locks because, funnily enough each floorboard click and locks onto each other. They are less likely to move as oppose to tongue and groove; where joints are simply inserted into place. Also, depending on how level the concrete floor is and the quality of the underlay it is also less likely to have that hollow sound than tongue and groove. Please excuse the horrible, horrible diagrams but hopefully you get the idea. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ The biggest disadvantage of having floating floors is that it is very difficult to sand down and revarnish over time. As there is nothing binding floorboards to concrete, when a sanding machine is applied to the floorboards it's likely that the flooring will rise. Direct stick flooring is more secure and less prone to creaking or hollow sounding. It is more expensive, but if you have unleveled or uneven floors glue is more forgiving and slightly evens out the concrete our where as the underlay does not so. And of course if after time your flooring looks really worn out, you can sand down and revarnish without any problems. Hope this was helpful and best of luck. 1000000% definitely add insulation. I have in my home and it makes a big difference minimising sound transfer. Insulation is pretty cheap and definitely worth it 2 6148 Engineering timber is certainly a less fuss option, times cheaper to supply and install and better withstands humidity. 1 15840 Hi there, I'm a conplete newbie to this, but I'm looking to put a floor down in my 6x9m shed. It's currently sitting on a 100mm thick concrete perimeter (dirt floor… 0 6432 |