We’re pulling up carpet on a remodel job to make way for a hardwood floor. I know typical installation is directly over the subfloor but wondered if anyone has ever heard of leaving the particle board underlayment in place and installing hardwood over this?
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as far as i know, particle board is not a suitable substrate for holding the flooring nails and should definitely be removed. depending on the direction of the flooring in relation to the joists, you may have to add a layer of plywood after removing the particle board (glued and screwed to the joists as well as the field). hope this helps, macmillan
as far as i know, particle board is not a suitable substrate for holding the flooring nails and should definitely be removed
What if its a floating locked or glued floor? I don't think the original poster said for certain that it was a nail-down.
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Edited 10/17/2005 11:45 am by JohnT8
I'm with macmillan on this one. Leaving the particle board is asking for trouble due to lousy nail holding.
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Even if you nailed it well, and used longer flooring nails, you would still probably have too many loose spots and squeaks to be right.
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i agree with these guys.
particle board should never be used as subfloor in my opinion.
bu then again my opinion of particle board is that it should all be burned and never heard fron again.
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I just did a installation for a customer with Particle board subfloor, and I told her I wasn't gaurunteeing (spell) the job unless she put new sub floor down. she diddn't, and they are already having problems. It's worth the effort to put a new subfloor down.
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