There’s no easier way to increase living space in your current home than by developing your basement, and starting with the right foundation is essential to a successful basement project.
There’s no easier way to increase living space in your current home than by developing your basement, and starting with the right foundation is essential to a successful basement project.
The first step to a warm, comfortable basement floor is to use Barricade™: The insulated subfloor panel system that is specifically designed to cover concrete floors. Intended for use on below and slab on grade pads.
When it comes to basement ideas, a subfloor is a necessity not an option. Why do you need a basement Subfloor system?
Basement concrete floors, because they are built right on top of the soil are cold and damp. Warm, moist interior air, particularly when the relative humidity is higher than 50%, will always condense onto cold surfaces, such as single-glazed window glass, uninsulated foundation walls and bare concrete floors. The basement subfloor system should prevent moisture from condensing onto the concrete surface by blocking cold conduction through the concrete floor slab.
An uninsulated basement concrete floor can account for up to 1% of a home’s energy loss. A basement subfloor system should provide adequate insulation to help prevent excessive heat loss and provide a warm comfortable walking surface.
Installing finished floors directly to the hard unforgiving concrete floor results in floors that are rigid and uncomfortable, a basement subfloor system should provide a solid, stable surface for a finished floor that is quiet, and provides a cushioned feel.
A Barricade™ Subfloor Tile (BSFT) system is approved as a foundation for laminate, cork, or engineered wood floating floors, wall-to-wall carpeting, sheet vinyl, vinyl tiles, ceramic tiles, and solid hardwood floors.
Tools and Hardware Required:
Tape Measure, Pencil, 24-in Carpenter’s Square, Long Level, 7-1/4-in Circular Saw or a General-Purpose Crosscut Hand Saw, Pry Bar, 1/4-in x 3-1/2-in Tapcon Concrete Screws, Hammer, Electric Drill, and Electric Jigsaw or Keyhole Hand Saw.
A Barricade™ Subfloor Tile (BSFT) system is approved as a foundation for laminate, cork, or engineered wood floating floors, wall-to-wall carpeting, sheet vinyl, vinyl tiles, ceramic tiles, and solid hardwood floors. See the detailed installation instructions below for all of these floor types.
There’s no easier way to increase living space in your current home than by developing your basement, and starting with the right foundation is essential to a successful basement project.
Basement floors are cold and damp. The cement retains the cold and when the warm, moist air from your home meets the cold cement, a damp, 'sweaty' condition is created. Barricade™ Insulated Subfloor panels prevent moisture from condensing onto the concrete surface by blocking cold conduction through the concrete floor slab.
We recommend that you allow the Barricade™ panels to adjust to the relative humidity of the room in which they will be used prior to installation. Allow tiles to stand for at least 24 hours by stacking or laying them out on the floor with the insulation (blue side) down.
If the riser height is a problem, then you will need to make a landing at the bottom of the stairs and put in transition strips to get up to the proper height.
Make sure your drain is not sealed off from the channels underneath the subfloor. You might need to make some channels to the drain so that if there is water, it can get to the drain.
Not much! A Barricade™ insulated flooring panel is only 1" in total thickness.
Barricade™ panels are OSB (oriented strand board) construction and are approximately 2 feet square. They have 2 sides with tongue and 2 sides with grooves. There is no need for nails or glue to install a Barricade™ subfloor.
Absolutely! Barricade™ panels can receive nails or screws without compromising the benefits. Tile the entire basement with Barricade™ and then erect the stud walls right on top!
You can use carpet, laminate, vinyl or engineered hardwood. Simply prepare your new subfloor as you would any other. For example, lay down a 1/4" underlay for vinyl flooring.
A 1/4" plywood underlayment approved for use with sheet vinyl or adhesive-backed vinyl tiles should be installed with nails, staples or screws to the Barricade™ panels. Do not glue the plywood underlayment to Barricade™ panels. Do not glue adhesive-backed vinyl tiles directly to Barricade™ panels. Install the vinyl floor to the plywood underlayment according to the vinyl manufacturer's installation instructions. Leave 1/4" wall spacers in place until after the vinyl floor has been installed. Remove 1/4” wall spacers.
Of course, the Barricade™ system has been specifically-developed for easy installation, with subfloor panels installed in an average-sized basement in one day by the homeowner, using standard household tools.
The Barricade™ flooring panels can handle weights up to 5000 pounds per square foot.
When trying to determine how many Barricade™ Insulated Subfloor panels you require simply take the square footage of your area and divide that by 3.3. Click below to calcuate for you.
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