floating floor?

Question

What is a floating floor?

Answer 1

The proper term is click floor,
its a hard laminate composite
using no glue or mechanical fasteners.

Answer 2

That's not right. I done my living room with a floating floor about 8 years back. Cost me about $500 looks as good today. As the day I put it down. You want your sub-floor flat and a nice snug fit between all the seams with each seam lines staggered. You wanna leave a good half an inch along the walls free so the floor can float. Or you could run into some problems. Causeing it to be a bit tight over time. Damp mop is all you want. No standing water. Mine was made by Armstrong. 30 year floor. I do believe it will last. So far very happy with my floor.

Answer 3

Quite a few answers to this one, but the most commonly used floating floor would be in a building being converted into flats. the original floor is covered with a polystyrene layer then a sheet of visqueen "plastic" on top of this would be the timber layer. The whole reason for this procedure was to stop noise travelling through the floor to the flat below. From this first idea came the principle of laminate floors..

Answer 4

You have stood on mone many times. Laminate flooring and some types engineered hardwood flooring has interlocking toungue and grooves to fasten the boards together. Sometimes the tongue and groove is just glued together. This floor all lies on a pad of foam or felt much like carpet pad.
This method of installing a floor is different then installing solid wood flooring where each board is nailed diagonaly to the sub floor.

Reasons for this method is that laminate and its substrate is brittle and impossible to nail. The floor can expand and contract. It is easy assembly for a do it yourselfer.

Answer 5

Im pretty sure that its floor that floats
and in some cases the flying carpet in Aladin the Gene in that film so cool and If he was a real gene in a lamp well lets just say ther would be a lot off rubbing going on i tell yee hawww hawwww

Answer 6

Exactly what it says. A waterproof membrane (thick plastic sheet) is placed on the floor first, then a foam sheet and then the timber. Skirting boards should be removed and put back on when finished. The timber is laid to approx 3mm from the wall and the 3mm gap gives the timber room to expand and contract in hot and cold weather.

Answer 7

afloating floor is a floor that is not physically held down by nails or screws..normally you lay down a layer of polystyrene and then you lay the flooring on top of it .normally you glue the joints between the boards ..then you fix the skirting's ..it actually works very well

Answer 8

A floor that is not nailed down to the subfloor.

Answer 9

it is laminate flooring, it has to float so it has room to grow and expand or shrink due to the weather.

Answer 10

theres lots of answers for this,try the link below think this is what you might mean hope this helps