I've had the good fortune to acquire a load of reclaimed parquet blocks for free from a local Facebook group - I'm slowly working on improving our 1960s modernist terraced house (row house) and want to replace some crapped out laminate flooring with a nice herringbone parquet.I've read around online a fair amount but have a couple of questions, if anyone can help. I've read that you need to lay parquet on a solid floor - either concrete or sturdy ply. I've got a few options of where I could lay it but the ideal spot would be the top floor landing which currently has the worst laminate. This is two floors up and while I could lay ply no problem, I'm wondering if there's a reason that I've really only seen parquet on ground floors before. Is the extra movement going to mean it ages poorly?Secondly, 18mm ply is recommended, then the blocks themselves are maybe 20mm, giving a total thickness (not including glue) of around 4cm (an inch and a half). The current laminate is a few mm thick and laid on top of some thin foam, so the parquet will be a considerable amount deeper. I'm happy to trim round the edges as needed, but potentially there will be a height difference going into the bedrooms on either side. They currently have the same crappy laminate - in future we might get carpet, sand back the floorboards or lay more parquet. It's hard to imagine what a height difference on each threshold would look/feel like. It'd be a couple of centimetres at most but I don't want to realise after installing that it looks awful and means we stub our toes daily. Can anyone offer advice?There are other areas in the house I could lay it but I'm keen to replace the worst laminate first and most other areas have some decent laminate that we can live with for a few more years.Thanks in advance to anyone that has parquet experience! Apologies for any impenetrable UKisms. via /r/DIY https://ift.tt/2OuVdFP
