Osb oriented strand board subflooring.
3 4 hardwood flooring over osb.
Builders often reserve the use of oriented stand board for residential sheathing and construct subfloors with plywood.
Even so the national wood flooring.
Installing hardwood flooring over osb.
Nails will not hold onto the osb through the hardwood floor and will come loose in a couple of years causing uneveness which is a very dangerous situation to try to walk.
Builders choose osb because it typically costs less than plywood free of knots and voids and can be used interchangeably in typical flooring applications where the panels have the correct span rating.
It is standard practice to install the hardwood floors.
Osb subflooring looks like and is a bunch of wood chips glued together.
A plywood subfloor generally uses 1 2 inch to 3 4 inch thick sheets of plywood that have one rough side which faces down and one smooth side which faces up.
The sheets are generally 4 x 8 or 4 x 12 feet in size.
A contractor said do not install hardwood flooring over osb.
Instead he recommended laminate wood floor over osb.
A benefit to using staples over glue is that it can be walked on immediately.
Bruce american originals natural red oak 3 4in.
3 4 thick solid wood flooring can be installed directly over 3 4 thick osb subfloor.
Hardwood can make for a durable and beautiful floor but small mistakes in the subflooring or installation can wreak havoc and buckling squeaky uneven floors can all result from poor installation.
The difference between the moisture content of the wood subfloor and the hardwood flooring must not exceed 4.
Installation usually consists of gluing and nailing the osb sheets to the floor joists.
The subfloor and flooring should be tested with an appropriate moisture meter.
The subfloor moisture level must not exceed 12.
In about 2 or 3 years the hardwood flooring will pull loose.
W x varying l solid hardwood flooring 20 sq ft case 3 49.
T x 2 1 4 in.
How to install a wooden floor over osb.
Osb oriented strand board.
An increasing number of homes and light commercial buildings have oriented strand board osb subfloors.