Floating Floor Over Rigid Insulation

You just need to make sure your foam insulation doesn t get crushed with all the weight on top of it.

Floating floor over rigid insulation. Or as demonstrated here you can cover the slab with rigid foam insulation add two layers of plywood and then add the finish flooring. Achieving a u value of 0 25 would be a good target. Rockwool offers stone wool insulation products to meet and exceed thermal regulations in floor constructions as well as solutions for separating floors to prevent heat transfer between the upper and lower floors. However if you are installing vinyl flooring over a concrete sub floor you will need a very thin vapor barrior such as visqueen vapor barrier underlayment to protect your flooring from.

Interior wood framed floor insulation. The flooring is separated from the insulation board with usually polythene and covered with the floor finish such as carpet or laminate floor for example. The insulation should be pushed tight to the underside of the floorboards. Vinyl flooring needs to have a sturdy stable sub floor with very little cushioning regardless of the installation type.

Starting from the bottom the floating floor insulation is laid over the concrete slab and screed and damp proof membrane if necessary. You may want to look into a 1 2 rubber material instead. Glue down click lock or loose lay. That would need 90mm of rigid foam or 150mm mineral wool.

A semi rigid material is generally best as it can be cut very slightly oversized and squeezed in between the floor joists thereby ensuring no draught causing gaps. But a floating sub floor can be used by using two layers of 3 8 or 1 2 cdx 1 screwed to each other. Stylite have created the eps range of insulation boards specifically for floor insulation and can be used with any floor substrate in a wide range of applications from domestic to industrial flooring. In this method individual planks or in some cases tiles interlock edge to edge to.

Floating floors have become increasingly popular for many types of floor coverings. You can attach wood sleepers to the floor fill the gaps with rigid foam insulation and then apply your finish flooring. This system is usually installed over sound proofing material. Stylite eps floor insulation is available in a range of different thicknesses and sizes.