How to Install Engineered Wood Flooring | Top Trade Tips

In this video, Mr DIY himself, Craig Phillips shares his expert tips on how to install Engineered Wood Flooring. In this video, we'll show you how to choose and install the right type of underlay for your flooring installation, find the starting point for your first plank or tile so that you have equal cuts on either side of your wall as well as how the connection system works and how to efficiently snap together your flooring planks using the tools within an installation kit.

0:00 - Intro
0:19 - Tools Required
0:46 - Preparing the Surfaces
1:52 - How to install underlay
3:58 - How to start laying the flooring
7:00 - Spacers and Measurements
9:33 - Explaining the Click System
10:00 - Laying the Second and Third Row
12:01 - Laying the Rest of the Flooring
12:28 - Laying the Last Row
13:34 - How to fit Scotia beading
13:53 - Finished Engineered Wood Floor

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[mrjohncrumpton]

Thank you. Best video on youtube for fitting engineered wood.

[Robin-iens]

Renovating an entire house and have done 75% myself using your videos. Amazing instructions in every video.

[lkw]

I really like your thoroughness. You are the only contractor video I have seen that actually shows a humidity meter.

[a-tgof]

Great vid. Dont know why the comments are so strange😂 thank you for demonstating. Feeling more confident installing now 😊

[donnaletheby]

Just came over from tiktok, I loom forward to some DIY clips,

[sureshviswanathanchettiar]

You really inspired me on the process techniques
Best wishes

[erolhassan]

Nice and simple if you've got no doors to go through or protrusions such as fire places etc. What about removing the skirting boards?

[kenanyigiter]

One thing the guy forgot to mention is if he is installing this as floating floors or fixed nail/glue to the subfloor. With Engineered wood flooring, I understand it is not floating, it should be fixed to the subfloor via nail or staple on the lips or glue if concrete below. BYOT videos shows these engineered wood flooring as fixed, not floating. If the uploader or anyone else knows, can you please write if it should be floating or fixed. One thing I did noticed at end of video 14:00 he showed a trim scotia bead, and he said to allow any movement to happen. (I thought Hybrid or SPC or laminate flooring is floating because the material is different to below wood so when wood expands or contracts with temperature it will not pull apart)

[sarahcowell]

Are these manufacturing guidelines just specific to the floor you have or apply to any sort of engineered wood flooring?

[Killieguy]

Trying to do a bit of research on which type of flooring I should get.We have 2 cockapoos do you think laminate would be ok or engineered?

[TheWidowMaker.]

Can I cut the skirting and Tuck the wood under it, the same way you can do it with laminate flooring?

[boblargecock]

Here are the tools you need, apart from the circular saw. That can just appear magically out of nowhere 😂

[ItsGrantM]

Hi mate, so no need for adhesive or nails?

[azad]

Wen u take out the spacers around the edges won’t d floor move and make gaps between the planks then u ave to move em back using duck tape or dubble sided tape wtf am I right or am I just of my head????

[decosse]

Helpful tips on layout considerations. But have to say, pretty poor quality flooring - both ends along the length were curling in the air and only the application of the molding bead would be holding it down, which is far from ideal. I suspect that over larger areas, it would be prone to 'springing' as you walk over it. With material that had that issue, I think I'd be more likely to glue it down, although personally, would spend a bit more to get a better quality product.

[luistorres-jlcd]

Omg to slow. Wrong instalation. U forgot to use glue