Floating Timber Floor Insulation

If your wood floor is laid on beams then one solution would be to lift the old floor and to place either chip board underneath together with a suitable insulating underlay or to place mineral wool insulating material between the beams before re laying your floor.

Floating timber floor insulation. Suspended timber floors located above an unheated space where the insulation is installed below the floorboards or timber decking timber floors situated above an unheated integral garage. The first is what lies under your floor. At the turn of the 18th century when construction techniques moved from boarded floors installed directly on the ground to suspended timber floors over a ventilated chamber the innovation solved a significant problem. All ground floor constructions unless very large commercial floors will require some insulation to be included within the floor zone to comply with building regulation requirements.

As upper mentioned the floating floor construction includes a number of layers carefully stacked up on top of each other. They are very versatile and can be used to almost any type of flooring including solid concrete floors block floors and suspended timber floors and are an ideal solution for floating floor insulation. If the ground floor in question is of a suspended timber construction and whether this is a renovation or new build project then the insulation would normally.