If you are looking for the beauty and personalization available in decorative concrete flooring you can absolutely achieve this look with an installation over your plywood sub floor without any compromises in quality.
Second floor concrete over plywood.
Substrate the thing sitting on your joists.
Then shim the new flooring up to meet a flat spanner that rests on another piece of flooring on the other side of the dip.
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For the second story a foamed type of lightweight concrete is being used over plywood for sound absorption between floors.
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Tacking this row down with a couple finish nails will give you better results then shim and nail through them.
When installed correctly your concrete over plywood floor will not permit moisture through will not warp or buckle and will come with all the benefits of concrete in an easy to care for floor.
The minimum plywood subfloor thickness is 3 4 for a 3 4 nailed down floor so you would have 1 1 2 above the existing subfloor.
Spacing as you normally would.
You need the 2nd layer.
Floating a floor over that lightweight concrete is your best bet.
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Here is step by step diy wood floor preparation for laminate or hardwood floor installation.
Radiantheatflooring concreteflooroverwood mikedayconcrete in this video i m pouring a radiant heat concrete floor over a plywood deck.
Duraamen s param 5500 goes on thin in a 3 8 to 1 2 thick application.
You need something for the second layer called quot underlay quot.
Please send us information regarding the proper chemical.
It lays down ultra flat.
You cannot go over the 1 2 quot.
Good side plywood is your quot go.
We are building a 2 story condominium complex with concrete slab on grade.
Rip them down to 3 shims.