Osb Under Vinyl Plank

Installing a glue down vinyl floor sheet or tile directly over oriented strand board osb subflooring has become a hot topic for me of lately i have had people asking about installing sheet lvt and vct directly to the osb subfloor without the use of an underlayment.

Osb under vinyl plank. First there was plywood and then came oriented strand board osb a less pretty and less expensive but arguably more stable substitute. In rare cases a homeowner will install a new vinyl floor over an existing one. If that s what you re doing the first step is to do a deep clean of the old vinyl with floor cleaner. Other osb negatives contractors builders and home remodelers have mixed opinions about the use of osb for flooring mostly tending toward the negative.

Allow it to dry completely before moving on. In other words a g1s underlayment. It was patented under the name waferboard in 1965 and it quickly claimed a major share of the new construction market being used extensively for sheathing roof decking and subfloors. It s a floating floor which means it isn t fastened to the subfloor it just lies there.

It comes in tiles and planks but this article covers planks only and uses a product called adura locksolid. Osb subfloor is mostly serving as a base under the finish floor hardwood engineered wood vinyl tile etc and even below the underlayment in some cases. Vinyl planks require hard thin underlay because the product itself is softer. While underlayment for vinyl planks may be used under hardwood and laminate the reverse is not true.

The vinyl planks are both thick and somewhat flexible. Luxury vinyl flooring lvp is similar to sheet vinyl but it s thicker more durable and easier to install. If you were installing sheet vinyl different story as that product requires perfect preparation and a dead smooth surface for long term use. If you don t have floor cleaner mix a few drops of dish detergent with water to clean the floor.

I have had no problems whatsoever with vinyl planks directly on dricore which is a smooth version of osb. Most flooring vinyl flooring manufacturers do not allow direct glue down directly to the subfloor.