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Caption: RIGHT and WRONG when installing a woodfloor floating
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Caption: Choose the right underlay
1. Protecting the wood against moisture
2. Tackling subfloor unlevelling
3. Providing slipperiness for the floor expand/retract easily
4. Acoustic improvement
Caption: HW150088
UNDATECH SILVER
A foil-backed timber flooring underlay suitable for any floating application excluding floorheated floors but including high-volume commercial that is the best for noise reduction within the room itself and the neighbouring rooms
1. Protection against moisture
2. Cushionning (smoothening subfloor)
3. Expansion/retraction fascilitator
Impact noise reduction: 19dB
10 m2/roll (45kg/roll)
Thickness 3mm
Undatech Gold (23dB)
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Caption: INSTALLATION
Step 1: Unroll underlay.
Usually the moisture barrier lands underneath the foam, so turn upside down
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Caption: Do not forget to put the slippery side up, otherwise the waterproof scotchtaping along the overlaps is not waterproof
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Caption: Scotchtaping along overlaps upon foam:
not waterproof!
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Caption: Do not install wood upon damaged moisture barriers
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“A swimming pool with a hole is not a swimming pool”
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Caption: Therefore repair damages prior to install the wood
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Caption: At first we tought there was a leak from the ceiling
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Caption: It appeared to be a hole in the foil underneath.
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Caption: To avoid moisture from the wall discoloring the wood, have the underlay up along the wall
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Caption: Leave at least 15mm or 1mm/M expansion gaps between the wood and the wall
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Caption: Install the first row with the tongue away from the wall.
Finetune the width of the first row as such that you do not end up with an ugly narrow strip.
Apply sufficient woodglue in all the floorboard grooves.
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Caption: To put sufficient glue happen, use a handy bottle
Caption: Remove excess glue from the floor surface and the bevel with a wet cloth immediatly
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Caption: When installing in the dry season, put spacers 0.2mm or more between the floorboard joints
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Caption: Comparison
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Caption: 21 dB noise reduction
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