{"id":147,"count":0,"description":"<strong>Floating floors<\/strong>: These are floors installed over an existing subfloor without the use of adhesive or mortar and remain stable due to gravity.\r\n\r\nIn the last decade of the <strong>20th century<\/strong>, this installation technique was used with <strong>laminate flooring<\/strong>, whose tongue-and-groove planks were glued together onto an <strong>expanded polyethylene<\/strong> base, which provided <strong>some leveling<\/strong> and partially improved its <strong>acoustic performance<\/strong>. Later, the <strong>click system<\/strong> was incorporated, which milled <strong>the tongue and groove joints<\/strong> with specific sections that allowed for tongue-and-groove installation <strong>without glue<\/strong> and provided excellent support. Other types of floating installation systems use <strong>metal clips<\/strong> under the wooden planks or, on top of a <strong>waterproof and insulating membrane<\/strong> (<a title=\"Everlay\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mondoworldwide.com\/emea\/en\/products\/everlay%C2%AE%20underlayments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Everlay<\/a>) laid on the subfloor, the upper part of which is glued to a flexible underlayment, resulting in a <strong>glued \"floating\" floor<\/strong>.","link":"https:\/\/www.encyclofinish.com\/en\/tag\/floating-floors\/","name":"Floating floors","slug":"floating-floors","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclofinish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclofinish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclofinish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.encyclofinish.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}