The porosity of a concrete floor can make your basement cold and damp robbing you of valuable living space. Today, floating subfloor systems offer homeowners a way to stifle the cold and construct ...

Q. My son’s house is on a slab, and he would like to replace his flooring (some carpet, some tile) with some kind of wood floor. What will work? A. Your best bet is to put down a floating, la… ...

Floating floors are a less sci-fi concept than they sound, and you might even be standing on them now. Here is what they are, and the rooms they work best for.

You can run a floating floor over concrete, plywood, sheet vinyl, even ceramic tiles, but you need a level, clean, dry, stable floor to start with. If your floor surface is not level it will show ...

Q: In this coldest of winters, I need help! My family room floor is like a block of ice and my several attempts to fix the problem have failed. I've read many of your columns about insulation ...

[3] Effect of structural vibration and room acoustic modes on low frequency impact noise in apartment house with floating floor. Applied Acoustics (2018). Back to "Acoustics and Noise Control" ...

Legalett / Lloyd Alter. But there are some serious advantages to foam that can make a TreeHugger think twice, especially when one is talking Passive House, where one needs a lot of insulation and ...

Here's a tile tip from Minneapolis tile contractor TJ Roemer of Creative Tile Works: If you are installing a tile floor, the most durable underlayment is a floating floor. A floating floor is a ...