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Foil provides zero insulating value when there's no air gap. It only blocks radiant heat transfer but all heat transfer between your subfloor and floor is conductive transfer

Hi, very helpful video. Could you suggest the most ideal product for a room where half is a ply sub floor and the other half screed/concrete. I wish to glue the floor down and achieve a little heat isolation . Any advice would be greatly appreciated .

great video thank you - we are using engineer wood flooring for a small space (10m2). our builder wants to put it with adhesive / glue down. he needs 2mm underlay, what underlay would you recommend?

Id like to lay an engineered or laminate floor on top of a suspended wood floor which is very cold underneath. What would be the best underlay to keep the cold underneath and the room above as warm as possible? Thanks

Hi, Great tips thanks. I’ve got some hard wood flooring and have a concrete floor to lay on. You said to stick it down directly but is there an underlay you can recommend if I’d like to reduce sound and heat loss?

Hi, I have a concrete subfloor which as no built in dpm as it's quite an old property. I'm wanting laminate flooring down but unsure which underlay to choose. Please help?

Which is the best underlay for sound. We saw few of my friends installed 2 mm underlay but they are dealing with sound while walking. Can you please suggest best underlay for sound

I have a new build passive house. Can you please tell me what underlay would be suitable for a 12mm laminate floor going on top of cem screed floor with underfloor heating ?

Hello, I live in an old house with wooden floors upstairs and downstairs. Unfortunately, the upstairs floor area (in certain parts) has been badly treated in the past - I think by workmen using indiscrimminate methods of accessing wiring and pipes. The result is that parts of my upstairs floor is uneven and feels insecure under foot. There is a thin carpet covering. What I want to do is roll back the carpet, place some sort of high-density tiles or covering and replace the carpet. Could you recommend a good product which should make the floor feel solid and firm underfoot? I live in Dublin Ireland and I am assuming that your products (which sound great) can be purchased in Dublin or that I can, at least, purchase them online. Also, do they need to be glued or screwed down or might there be sufficient traction to hold them in place? Thank you for your help.

We are wanting to place a laminated wood floor over a tiled, chipboard floor. The tiles have been there 30 years and all are still solidly attached. Around the tiles (about 8"x8" square) there is a depression where they are grouted. Which underlay would you suggest please?

Hi, thanks for making this video, so much great content on UA-cam! I am replacing a laminate floor and intend to put electric under floor heating in under the laminate. What advice do you have re the insulation? I don't know yet what the sub floor is, but it is a residential development of flats, built in 2001 and we are on the 2nd floor, so I am guessing it will be timber. With energy prices so high we are keen to insulate effectively so that we minimise the cost of the underfloor heating. Do you have any idea how much energy you save by 10mm v 6mm? Or whether some materials are more effective at preventing heat loss than others? I don't yet know how much space we have, but I would appreciate any guidance you can give on optimising for energy loss/thickness. I don't have an unlimited budget, but think that insulating as well as possible would be a good investment. Thanks!

Woodglut is nice for that.

Woodglut has a lot of plans to choose from.

Great video, very informative, thank you !

Great video. I am laying an engineered oak board on top of a suspended wood floor which is very cold underneath. What would be the best underlay to keep the cold underneath and the room above as warm as possible. Would it be the techniboard as it has the highest tog rating?

On your site the Fibre Board is not compatible with LVT flooring, why is that? I want to install LVT on a wooden floor and was planning to use some 5mm ply to level it out a bit. Would that not work?

Hi can you give me a some suggestions, i going to put LVT on my basement. Do I have to use underlay. Which underlay fit to LVT?

What's your recommendation for a underlay for wooden office with timber floor? Wouldn't want any moisture there to rooten the wood. Much appreciated

Regarding the beginning of your video Why would you not want to use an underlay on a 2nd floor that has OSB boards when nailing down solid horizontal strand bamboo that is 3 3/4 x 9/16" thick (also has T&G edges)? Seems like you can't lose and might help any miniscule leveling imperfections and gain soundproofing while at it... This solid bamboo product I have has the following written instructions under the nail down method "Prior to installing flooring, roll out 15 lb. felt or asphalt impregnated paper in the same direction of the flooring. Overlap each row by 3 in to 4 in" I'm thinking about using the Pergo Gold 3mm underlayment instead of the felt. Any thoughts..it's around 280 sq foot area.??

Hi I’m wondering if you have had any problems laying 8mm laminate on 5mm fibre board, I’ve had some gapping and on the joints, the flooring is hydroclick 8mm herringbone laminate? Apparently the seller have said the underlay is wrong for the product

Hello very informative video, but not much said for hardwood other than not recommending underlayment. I will be nailing 3/4" (19mm) red oak hardwood over oriented strand board subfloor. From what I gather I need to use at least rosin paper to help with squeaking. What are your thoughts on felt, foam or cork? My subfloor is level but not very even, with up to 1/8" (3mm) height difference between subfloor boards. Of course I will even out the edges between the boards with a planer, but as far as underlayment, is there one that will improve this situation even more? It's my first flooring project and I can't find any definitive information about underlayment for hardwood floors since credible sources seem to all be saying different things. Thanks

Telling us the thickness would have been a good idea.

I want an engineered wood flooring to replace the carpet in the living room. However, I think I will have a problem with two different heights between the ceramic tiling in the adjoining kitchen and the living room. Any tips?

hi what would you recommend for a 3 bed house, for the hall way and into the kitchen, so many different types of flooring these days- LVT, hard wood, engineered wood, whats best and not loads of money?

Thank you, good simple explanation of the topic

Just wondering what would you underlay would you recommend for laying carpet over concrete subfloor? One that offers a built in vapour/moisture barrier, sound dampening and insulation whilst maintaining average thickness and density for residential properties?

Would you recommend removing the cheap/foam backing from laminate or LVT planks and using a better underlay? Also what is the key to having laminate/LVT feel solid? Feel almost like it’s glued down? I’ve seen some that feels this way. Is that the underlay? Lastly great video, well made. And props for answering all comments!

Enjoyed your instructive video. Very helpful :) I'm installing engineered wood over the original timber floorboards in the ground floor hallway of our Victorian property. For the underlay I need good levelling & heat insulation with some degree of sound insulation ... so I'm swaying between the Acousta 3mm (Timbertech) and Techni-board Insulating underlays. My understanding is that a DPM is not advised for a timber sub-floor, so would that rule out using the Acousta 3mm as it includes an 'aluminium vapour barrier'? Maybe I'm confusing this vapour barrier with a DPM but would appreciate your advice. Many thanks.

I am having engineered wood flooring (12.7mm) over concrete subfloor that is rather uneven in certain areas. I am not putting any heating elements, but want to insulate from the very cold concrete floors. This is for residential use. What would you recommend to use for insulation/leveling?

Hi, I'm looking for the best sound deadening underlay for laminate in a flat, to keep from bothering my downstairs neighbors. Which one would you recommend?

I am looking for an underlay for a cold concrete floor in an old property. I note that the underlays for concrete floors are both insulating and suitable for underfloor heating, but isn't that a contradiction because if it was insulating, wouldn't it lessen the transmission of temperature from the concrete floor through the barrier underlay? Which underlay would you recommend to prevent cold rising from an unheated old concrete floor? Thanks

I plan to lay laminate underlay on a concrete subfloor. I purchased Solid Gold underlay 5mm, but the fitter said to get fibreboard as it would be better on concrete in terms of heat insulation. Is that right, also will it need damp proof membrane if going with the fibreboard.

Can I double up on underlay

Ok so I have a plywood floor in my shed and want to cover with laminate floors. What underlying am I using?

Could you tell me which one is best from a purely heat-insulation perspective? We have a hallway / corridor with a concrete subfloor that is very cold in winter. Techni-board, SilentGold plus, Acousta 3mm...?

we call it padding or vapor barrier we don't call it underlay and we always use the one the give the customer the best warranty if you use something else you lose manufacturer warranty and then you have to take it up with padding manufacturer and it never comes out good for the customer

Underlayment is quarter inch Luan multiply sureply other products are padding and it's always best to use what manufacturers warranty are you bought it

You never use underlayment for laminate floor and you don't have to use it for an engineered floor unless you're gluing it call a professional this guy apparently don't know what he's talking about

Amazing video thanks

I have vinyl tiles that I do not want to pull up. Which underlay is best to cover over my vinyl tiled floor for installing laminate planks ?

Great detailed test👍. I wonder which floor would be best for a heavy electric wheel chair as I was recommended lvt but laminate seems toughest here.

why is underlay unsuitable for solid wood floors? and why do solid wood floor need to be stuck/nailed down? I have a concrete floor that I was planning on covering with solid wood, but I was hoping to include an insulating layer also. Thanks.

No underlayment for hardwood floor? What??

Which is the best underlayer for a timber floor?

I am looking at a parquet floor over a wooden suspended floor in a Victorian house. Method for installation would be glue down, can I apply this directly on the techniboard or do I still need an OSB/plywood subfloor? And would you recommend a dpm?

Laminate on top of a tiled floor, what underlay would you suggest?

Hi I’ve just recently purchased a old Florida house built in 1922 that has original heart pine floor that was buried underneath some trash carpet. The floor is actually not terrible, considering it’s almost 100 years old; but their is a few spots. The house is on concrete stilts that keep the bottom of the house a little over a foot off the ground. As far as I can tell theirs nothing else under the heart pine floors other than the foot of air space and then the actual ground (one board was loose and allowed me to look through it and I saw the ground) I’m not actually trying to restore the heart pine as I’m way too busy now to take on that project as well, so I settled on just putting laminate down over top the heart pine. My question is, with the foot of air space, and with how great heart pine locks out moisture, would I be able to JUST use a moisture barrier overtop the pine and then lay the laminate? Or should I actually install a subfloor of plywood on top of pine and then a moisture barrier and thennnn finally the laminate? I know this is a super long question😂 any help is appreciated. Thanks again

What's the best onto a chipboard? Wooden fibre?

Great video BTW. I'd like to add an OSB/plywood with rubber tiles over my concrete garage subfloor with a DPM. Can the plywood floor be floated over the underlayment or would it have to be secured by either screwing or gluing? Also, which underlayment would be strong enough for a car while ideally adding a little insulation and sound dampening? Thanks!