Wooden floors on underfloor heating - glue or float?

newbuilder

I'm in the process of looking for wooden floors for my new house. I'm hoping for an engineered walnut. I've two questions, firstly I have found one i like but it comes in two thickness's 14mm or 20mm, which is best suited to underfloor heating? Second question is my carpenter says it would be much better if we could glue the boards down, but most of the flooring stores have recommended floating it on a special underlay, again HELP??? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!:confused

yop

Firstly please turn off bold, very hard to read.

Secondly, wrong forum.

Thanks

Tigger

newbuilder wrote: »

I'm in the process of looking for wooden floors for my new house. I'm hoping for an engineered walnut. I've two questions, firstly I have found one i like but it comes in two thickness's 14mm or 20mm, which is best suited to underfloor heating? Second question is my carpenter says it would be much better if we could glue the boards down, but most of the flooring stores have recommended floating it on a special underlay, again HELP??? Any advice would be greatly appreciated!:confused

ok

1 don't glue enginered flooring thinner than 18mm deep as it may de laminate
2 make sure that your fitter gaurentees the method he uses
3

if i was fitting i would always float the floor on the special underlay but thats because if i had to replace or fix it undergaurentee its far simpler and quicker

if its glued down and something goes wrong its a very hard job to fix it but if you carpenter is hapy to glue it then there is no reason not to


i'll pm you some spec sheets if you like

gsxr1

you don't glue down semi solid floors.

At least I have never.

It would be odd to glue down an engineered floor.

There are threads on here about choosing underlay for underfloor heating.

if ya use the search they should come up