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Insulated subfloor
I want to finish my basement. I am looking for a subfloor material of high
insulation capability to be placed on the existing concrete floor. I will put standard padding and carpet on top. Is this kind of material available? Should studs go on top or the subfloor go between studs? How is carpet attached to the subfloor? Peter. |
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Insulated subfloor
"PVR" wrote in message ... I want to finish my basement. I am looking for a subfloor material of high insulation capability to be placed on the existing concrete floor. I will put standard padding and carpet on top. Is this kind of material available? Should studs go on top or the subfloor go between studs? How is carpet attached to the subfloor? Peter. How important is the insulating property? The sub floor installation could be pretty expensive. You could just put down plywood. I believe I would go for the heaviest pad and carpet and forget the subfloor. Carpet is usually fastened down by tack strips around the edges. That can be nailed down to any flat surface. |
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Insulated subfloor
Home depot, and other places I'm sure, have a 2x2 panel of osb with an
"egg-carton" material glued to the back. Be careful that if you are going to lay rug, the instructions call for you to build the walls on top of it. There is another solution available if your walls are up already, but it doesn't seem as strong as the prior. "PVR" wrote in message ... I want to finish my basement. I am looking for a subfloor material of high insulation capability to be placed on the existing concrete floor. I will put standard padding and carpet on top. Is this kind of material available? Should studs go on top or the subfloor go between studs? How is carpet attached to the subfloor? Peter. |
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Insulated subfloor
I've been researching this a little.
dri core is one of the products available subflor is very similar both of those are osb tongue and groove with plastic glued to the bottom. There is a third product that I've chosen for my basement, it's VERY new, and manufactured for basement systems, most of the basements systems guys don't even know that it exists yet. It's tongue and groove but it's all plastic, seemed like a good idea to me to get rid of the wood, as wood is prone to expansion, moisture problems etc. (I'm having this system installed tomorrow, and I can let you know how it goes) They also have rolls of the stuff similar to what is glued onto the bottom of the dricore. None of these solutions are that great of insulation, you'll get an R value of just 1 or 2, but they should keep your floor 5 or 6 degrees warmer because there is an air gap between you and the cement. They also are very thin, so you don't loose that much head room. If you need more insulation than that and don't mind loosing the head room, use 2x4 sleepers with ridged insulation installed between them, with tongue and groove plywood screwed down to that. There was one more product that I found similar to the rolls of the plastic bubbles I found that had some sort of landscape fabric glued to it, and you were supposed to put down thinnest before you unroll it, then you could (supposedly) put tile right on top of it.. I can't remember the name of this product, because it just didn't sound like much fun to install. Joe "PVR" wrote in message ... I want to finish my basement. I am looking for a subfloor material of high insulation capability to be placed on the existing concrete floor. I will put standard padding and carpet on top. Is this kind of material available? Should studs go on top or the subfloor go between studs? How is carpet attached to the subfloor? Peter. |
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Homasote ComfortBase is designed for that application.. No clue what it
costs, though. PVR wrote: I want to finish my basement. I am looking for a subfloor material of high insulation capability to be placed on the existing concrete floor. I will put standard padding and carpet on top. Is this kind of material available? Should studs go on top or the subfloor go between studs? How is carpet attached to the subfloor? Peter. |
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The full product name is ThermalDry Basement Floor Matting by Basement
Systems. Here are some pics of it getting installed, also a couple pics of the product itself. http://www.frozenice.com/pickle/inde...subfloor+day1/ Installing it wasn't too bad, still took some time, you can certainly feel the difference with a foot on the concrete, as opposed to sitting on top of the plastic, tonight I'll try and take some actual temperature readings. Joe "Mike" wrote in message news There is a third product that I've chosen for my basement, it's VERY new, and manufactured for basement systems, most of the basements systems guys don't even know that it exists yet. It's tongue and groove but it's all plastic, seemed like a good idea to me to get rid of the wood, as wood is prone to expansion, moisture problems etc. (I'm having this system installed tomorrow, and I can let you know how it goes) They also have rolls of the stuff similar to what is glued onto the bottom of the dricore. What is the name of this product? The price of DRICore has put me off. I either need to find something cheaper, or I'm going with carpet/pad right over the concrete. Thanks, Mike |
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