Other osb negatives contractors builders and home remodelers have mixed opinions about the use of osb for flooring mostly tending toward the negative.
Gluing vinyl to osb.
Sand down the high spots with a belt sander using a 40 or 60 grit belt.
You can glue down vinyl plank flooring over appropriate existing flooring to eliminate hours of work peeling up the floor.
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.
Simply remove the baseboards and start the installation process replacing the baseboards after the vinyl plank flooring covers the previous layer of flooring.
Most floors aren t perfect so find high and low spots with a straightedge.
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.
Bottom line is flooring manufactures and even the osb manufacturers do not recommend gluing vinyl sheet and tile flooring directly to these subfloor panels.
Leave the vinyl in place for 72 hours.
Therefore according to the 2012 tcna handbook they are not recommended as a substrate material for direct bonding of ceramic or natural stone tile with cement mortars.
You can often install right onto concrete without the.
Plywood manufactured with a fully waterproof adhesive and with an.
If the floor isn t perfectly flat and dry the planks will lift.
Wood based panels like oriented strand board osb expand and contract with changes in moisture content.
It would be the same procedure over plywood.
Test the floor for moisture.
A plywood underlayment should be installed between the structural subfloor of the actual foundation and the flooring material.
Tape a 3 foot square piece of scrap vinyl to the concrete with duct tape sealing the edges tight.