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Hi guys
I have an oak floor to lay in a few weeks and was wondering on the best fixing method.The flooring is solid oak made by ELKA I will use the secret nail machine but should I also glue it to the 18mm chipboard sub floor or glue the tongues together.Cheers in advance for any comments.Chris
 
FWIW I would add some glue but not to the tongues or grooves. There are proper flooring adhesives but PU would be OK. Hope you don't get any squeaks/creaks with that chipboard.
 
More the nails from the oak through the chip board in to the oak below.
 
+1 for Tongue-tite screws & cordless drill. I laid 18 mm T&G oak over building paper onto existing floorboarding. Glued end joints only, as generally advised, & also predrilled all holes, probably unnecessarily.

A year later, joints still tight, no squeaking.
 
You can't nail to chipboard as the nails don't hold so a full stick down using the correct adhesive, you may need to overply for the adhesive to stick to, im unsure of the bond strength from the glue onto pf chipboard, you will need to get manafactures instructions or elka tongue title screws is the only way to go, I've used th screws before and I'd use them again

Don't need to glue the t&g when using the screws, or the nails if nailing into ply/ timber floorboards

Another option is to get engineered and float it
 

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