Gluing Vinyl To Osb

Test the floor for moisture.

Gluing vinyl to osb.

Other osb negatives contractors builders and home remodelers have mixed opinions about the use of osb for flooring mostly tending toward the negative. You can glue down vinyl plank flooring over appropriate existing flooring to eliminate hours of work peeling up the floor. Lvt can be glued down directly to plywood subfloors as long as the wood is smooth flat and structurally sound but not over wafer board particleboard or oriented strand board osb. Bottom line is flooring manufactures and even the osb manufacturers do not recommend gluing vinyl sheet and tile flooring directly to these subfloor panels.

Simply remove the baseboards and start the installation process replacing the baseboards after the vinyl plank flooring covers the previous layer of flooring. It would be the same procedure over plywood. You can install both glue down and floating floors over most subfloor materials including concrete plywood and oriented strand board osb but the requirements are more stringent for a glue down floor. A plywood underlayment should be installed between the structural subfloor of the actual foundation and the flooring material.

Sand down the high spots with a belt sander using a 40 or 60 grit belt. Plywood manufactured with a fully waterproof adhesive and with an. Wood based panels like oriented strand board osb expand and contract with changes in moisture content. Most floors aren t perfect so find high and low spots with a straightedge.

Osb subfloor is mostly serving as a base under the finish floor hardwood engineered wood vinyl tile etc and even below the underlayment in some cases. I m installing some lvp in a bedroom over an osb subfloor. Leave the vinyl in place for 72 hours. A plywood underlayment should be installed between the structural subfloor of the actual foundation and the flooring material.

Bottom line is flooring manufactures and even the osb manufacturers do not recommend gluing vinyl sheet and tile flooring directly to these subfloor panels. If the floor isn t perfectly flat and dry the planks will lift.