This is often caused by hollow spots between the flooring and the concrete slab.
Glue to concrete flooring noise.
The snapping sounds are almost always traced to an uneven subfloor.
Also concrete slab should be constructed with the appropriate moisture barricade.
The glued down method keeps the planks firmly in place so that they don t creak and moan as you move over the surface.
At this point the floor is locked in hitting the walls or door jambs around the perimeter.
Roberts 1407 is recommended for the installation of engineered wood flooring up 1 2 thick amp.
We hear noise all day long particularly as most of the staff are women wearing heels.
When working on a clean concrete subfloor the glue down method is often the go to choice.
Subfloors need to be quite flat.
But the catch is that the solid wood flooring we have that can be glued over concrete and warranted is 5 16 and 7 16 solid hardwood not 3 4 solid hardwood and can be only on on grade and suspended concrete.
Gluing down solid wood flooring to concretethis is a question that i have started to receive more and more.
We are on the first floor of a 2 storey commercial strata unit and the office above ours has either laminate or hardwood installed directly over the concrete floors and no underlay on the carpeted stairs.
Thank you for your inquiry.
Boil a pot of water.
My answer to that is yes and it is still warranted.
A solid hardwood floor glued to a concrete subfloor is typically the quietest possible installation.
Boards adhere well to the rough surface of the concrete subfloor and therefore lead to less gaps or planks lifting and buckling.
Laminate flooring materials don t tolerate humpy and bumpy subfloors.
If your glued edge floating floor is making noise one potential cause is that due to moisture the floor has expanded the maximum it can based on the expansion gap left during installation.
Installing screws through the flooring subfloor and to the joist glue to concrete squeaks if you have a floor glued to a concrete slab something that is common in texas oklahoma and arkansas those floors may squeak as well.
Fill a pot with water and bring it to a boil by placing it on a hot stove.