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I’m in the process of putting a new oak floor in a rather older house. The original decking is 1×8 diagonal Doug-fir over a crawl-space (generally dry here in California), with sufficient cupping, etc. that I plan to install a new layer of sub floor even though it means a height transition to an adjacent, original hardwood floor. The questions are:
1) I’m tempted to install the sub floor directly to the original decking, adding construction adhesive to help minimize squeaks, with the vapor barrier above the new sub floor – Question Yes or No?
2) Any thoughts re the advantages of staples as ring-shank nails to secure the new sub floor? I’ve got a pneumatic staple gun, but would be manually nailing ring-shanks.
Thanks
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I'm in the process of putting a new oak floor in a rather older house. The original decking is 1x8 diagonal Doug-fir over a crawl-space (generally dry here in California), with sufficient cupping, etc. that I plan to install a new layer of sub floor even though it means a height transition to an adjacent, original hardwood floor. The questions are:
1) I'm tempted to install the sub floor directly to the original decking, adding construction adhesive to help minimize squeaks, with the vapor barrier above the new sub floor - Question Yes or No?
2) Any thoughts re the advantages of staples as ring-shank nails to secure the new sub floor? I've got a pneumatic staple gun, but would be manually nailing ring-shanks.
Thanks