You went for the click fit wooden floor?

 

tounge and groove i think, where they slot into each other. but was glued down.

 

how long was the wood left in the house before fitting and how long before you finished the screed did you lay the floor?

I have bought enough to do the entire ground floor of my house but do not know how its going to be put down so its on hold until I find out what is going to work best.

 

Our floor has faired better than Floors2Go

 

2 months though it was left in its packaging. was layed 3 months after the screed was put down..

 

is that good? how has it expanded?

 

My parents had this layed about 15-20 years ago and it still looks great now, I think it had one re polish about 9 years ago.

 

Yeah fine so far, odd creak occasionally but generally pretty pleased with it.

I was referring to the fact that Floors2Go have gone into administration (i.e. bust) in the meantime.

 

If you went for solid wood flooring, then that is the problem. You don't lay solid wood on a concrete substrate. You must use engineered flooring made from high grade ply with 6-8mm solid wood bonded on top. Solid wood will twist and cup, lifting it from the bonding. Engineered is a lot less prone to these conditions.

Our house is fully floored in engineered flooring. We had 8" of concrete laid on top of a damp proof membrane, 6" of celotex/kingspan Insulation boarding, a further damp proof membrane, underfloor heating pipes and then a 3" self levelling floating special concrete floor, made by Lafarge. Flooring was laid 3 months after cure, but not before we got the moisture content down to less than 25% in the floating floor. We had the underfloor system running at low temperature and huge wind machines blowing air across the surface to draw out the moisture, with de-humidifiers collecting the moisture.

5 years on, touch wood, it is still stuck down!

 

We got solid oak v-groove for £17/m²....



Company we got it from seem to have gone bust a few times owing a lot of people money and leaving a lot of unfulfilled orders. Guess we got lucky