Floating solid wood parquet flooring installation, any experiences?

Sure, that's no problem. In the area of multi-layer parquet (2 or 3 layers) there is a huge selection in the 10-15mm range, leaving enough space for impact sound insulation. I was very impressed with the Bauwerk products in this area, that probably would have been my choice if I hadn't taken solid wood planks! Also, when it comes to parquet, I would think again about not gluing it down! The feel underfoot is completely different!

also with parquet I would reconsider whether you don’t want to glue it! The feeling underfoot is completely different!

Yes, I currently have glued layered parquet flooring in today’s apartment (x mm solid wood top layer lacquered and something layered as core. I don’t know right now how the plank is constructed). It does feel like wood, but it’s hard and not springy.
I thought, from the posts by , that floating parquet flooring does have a bit of a spring. And I would find that very nice if I could achieve that. With underfloor heating in the screed and 17mm build-up height.

I thought, from the posts by @pagoni2020, that floating parquet does have a bit of give. And I would find that very nice if I could manage it.

describes at the beginning here how he himself perceives it and names a possible source of information/reference. I myself didn’t directly write about "give" as far as I know, but it is indeed the case that we really liked this 28mm screwed floor, maybe precisely because we "enforced" ourselves against various opinions of builders and partly craftsmen and also because it didn’t feel so hard. I once slipped with socks and landed lying sideways two steps lower on the floor; nothing happened. I think that was luck but on a tiled floor or glued floor it would have felt a bit different, at least that is my opinion.

At that time, our natural stone dealer had screwed wooden planks lying in his showroom and poured gravel over them so that his customers could give the raw floor a certain "patina" by walking over it at first. Another example that you can do many things if you just like it that way, and he liked that very much, great! Our screwed floor didn’t creak and smaller gaps or scratches were only noticed by us in the first weeks, other floors in the house were replaced twice in 30 years, the wooden floor remained and only after 20 years got its covering color, directly applied with a great result, for the next 10 years. if you like it that much you will also find someone (see info Scout) who offers it even if it generally probably doesn’t correspond to the common construction method; I have found further providers online. Possibly you won’t get a warranty for it but especially here in the forum there are enough examples how much value some warranties sometimes have. The versions of (that’s how we had it back then) and seem to me to be the most suitable but since you already have screed installed and if you want it so much there are possibilities and providers (see ) how you can still carry it out (e.g. with clamps or this special adhesive foil). Whether you will get general approval here then is another matter... I actually believe that depending on your local situation it still is a feasible solution and if you like it you will also be able to live with one or the other circumstance, perhaps also with a rail to bridge 4mm on 21mm wooden plank. Currently we have fancy 3-layer oak parquet floating on screed here and everything is perfect; nonetheless, we also consider solid planks in the new build; but only out of a gut feeling or desire and not because something would be better or worse. Therefore, I do not want and cannot convince anyone of it.

Attached are some construction pictures: Screwed solid wood planks (oak) with underfloor heating without screed

Hello everyone,
speak to my heart with the preference for a slightly springy step, the smell of wood, gladly also the acoustic feedback of walking on wood and above all no glue on the entire living area.

We are planning to install solid wood flooring on a large scale in a new single-family house, ideally combined with a surface heating system due to the combination with a photovoltaic system and an air heat pump – ideally underfloor heating or underfloor tempering.

In search of a dry floor structure, we came across various systems with lava split plates or wood fiber boards with aluminum conductors – as shown in the post by – and would consider these systems.

A few questions/experience reports would interest me very much:
1. Does the system require a significantly higher supply temperature than with a usual setup? Is the concept of underfloor tempering instead of heating feasible with this structure (regardless of the necessary heating load of the building)?
2. Are there noises when walking due to contact of the planks with the aluminum conductors?
3. Is the step as elastic as hoped?
4. Can you give a rough estimate of the price? About XX% more expensive than a normal floor structure?

Best regards and many thanks!

1. I didn’t consider underfloor heating and we are also planning it in the new house without underfloor heating, but I believe that with a plank structure you don’t have to choose a different VLT. With screed, it also has to be heated completely, often with impact sound insulation and then about 15mm of parquet on top. Therefore, I don’t see any problems or other requirements. But might already have current experience with it.
2. I can’t imagine that......
3. Well, not really elastic, I guess. I like to use an example: I once slipped and landed two steps lower on the wooden floor. Of course, I was lucky not to have broken anything, but the same on a firmly glued parquet floor would certainly have felt different afterwards. We have acquaintances with a firmly glued parquet floor, and to me it feels like a stone floor.
I used to have it that way and now want it again. Added to that is the (for whatever reason) good feeling of being able to lift the floor in an emergency, unlike with screed.
4. Depending on how your floor slab is insulated and how much insulation you want/need to install underneath, the structure probably won’t be significantly more expensive if you calculate from raw floor to floor covering. What kind of plank do you want to lay then?

I would reconsider the parquet too, whether you shouldn’t glue it! The feel underfoot is completely different!

We also installed parquet floating during the renovation – I love the springy feeling, it’s a clear difference compared to the glued parquet in the old apartment. I like the comparison to the forest floor; you walk much more elastically.

An important point that was explained to us: Be careful if you plan to sand the parquet later! Regardless of the thickness of the wear layer, this is apparently difficult to impossible because the usual heavy sanding machines cause the floor to vibrate, simultaneously applying pressure and thus can break/splinter parts of the wear layer. Since we have parquet with an old floorboard look (planed, slightly wavy, etc.), sanding is visually out of the question for us anyway. But I find it important to know.