Laying solid oak flooring on existing floorboards

Hi,

I`m going to be laying solid oak tongue and groove flooring in our living room and through to the kitchen.

90% is currently timber floorboards and we have a bit of concrete around the chimney breast and some edging area.

I`m unsure of which underlay to use (or even if i have to use underlay) - there`s a lot of conflicting info out there!

I plan to run the new flooring at 90 degrees to the current flooring and was going to float the flooring with the T & G glued together on top of a wood fibre underlay with a 15mm expansion gap round the room under the skirting board, but now having read various articles, i`m not sure thats right!

Any advice is much appreciated!

Thanks, Mike

 

Thanks guys - I had a good look at the instructions tonight and they say I can use self adhesive underlay, glue directly to the floor or secret nail it down, so I think I'm going to go with the self adheisive underlay.

My wood flooring is fairly level and I've been going round screwing loose and creaky floor boards to the joists.

Just watched a couple of videos on YouTube and it's looks fairly straight forward - fingers crossed

 

Hi, just one last question - is it best lay all the underlay for the room out first it do the room in sections?

Cheers, mike