When installing engineered hardwood flooring, choosing the right adhesive is crucial for ensuring a successful and long-lasting result. However, selecting the best adhesive for your project can be challenging, as there are various options available. Let us help you pick the right flooring adhesive for your project.
Types of Hardwood Flooring Adhesives
You may be familiar with many different types of adhesives – but they are not all created equal, especially when it comes to budget or durability.
Water-Based Adhesives
Water-based adhesives are environmentally friendly and easy to clean up with water. They offer a strong bond and are suitable for most hardwood flooring installations. Water-based adhesives have a low odor and emit fewer volatile organic compounds (VOCs), making them a popular choice for indoor projects.
Solvent-Based Adhesives
Solvent-based adhesives provide a strong and durable bond, making them ideal for high-traffic areas and commercial applications. However, they typically have a stronger odor and higher VOC emissions than water-based adhesives. Proper ventilation is essential when using solvent-based adhesives.
Urethane Adhesives
Urethane adhesives offer excellent moisture resistance and flexibility, making them suitable for installation in areas with high humidity or moisture levels, such as basements or bathrooms. They provide a strong bond and are compatible with most types of hardwood flooring.
Epoxy Adhesives
Epoxy adhesives are known for their exceptional strength and durability. They are commonly used for bonding hardwood flooring to concrete subfloors or other non-porous surfaces. Epoxy adhesives require careful mixing and application and may not be suitable for all DIY projects.
Silane-Modified Polymers (SMP) Adhesives
SMP adhesives offer the benefits of both urethane and epoxy adhesives, providing a strong bond, excellent moisture resistance, and flexibility. They are suitable for a wide range of hardwood flooring installations and offer easy cleanup with water.
Our Top Choice for Hardwood Adhesives
Our team at Indiana Floor has a lot of experience helping contractors and professionals choose the right adhesives for flooring projects. Because of this experience, we are proud to recommend the products that will provide professional installation with durability and satisfaction.
INDIANA FLOOR CARRIES PREMIERE URETHANE ADHESIVES IN STOCK
Augra Adhesives
Augra Corporation is an adhesive manufacturer based in Texas that supplies adhesive technology for installing all types of wood flooring and various vinyl and rubber flooring. They carry multiple types of flooring adhesive products. Here are just a few of them:
Augra Prime Urethane Wood Flooring Adhesive
- Low V.O.C., low odor, one component, moisture curing polyurethane adhesive.
- Designed for easy trowel-on application over concrete or wood substrates, it can be used to install solid and engineered wood flooring, parquet flooring, shorts, recycled rubber flooring, cork flooring, and bamboo flooring.
- Trowels are easy to use yet offer a good wet/green grab.
- High bond strength.
- Cleans up easily prior to cure.
- Superior elasticity gives quieter, cushioned floor installations.
Singulock Multi-Functional Urethane Hybrid
- Singulock is a hybrid urethane wood flooring adhesive, moisture barrier, sound suppressor, and gap/crack filler.
- Designed to install materials such as solid and multi-ply engineered plank, bamboo flooring, and parquet flooring.
- Application of this product gives the moisture barrier and the wood flooring adhesive in one easy trowel on application.
- Significantly reduces installation time compared to most standard moisture barrier/adhesive systems.
- Vastly reduces V.O.C. and low odor.
TiteBond
Titebond PROvantage Heavy Duty Construction Adhesive is a premium-grade formula designed for more demanding construction and repair projects. It provides a strong grab, fills gaps and irregularities, and remains permanently flexible. This professional-strength formula will bond to most common building materials. It is covered under the 50-year Gold Subfloor Warranty against subfloor squeaks and pops.
- Best choice for extreme temperatures
- Recommended for demanding interior/exterior construction, installation, and repair projects.
- Compatible Materials: Common building materials including wood, metal, brick, marble, ceramic tile, concrete, drywall, wood, OSB, particleboard and wet, frozen, and treated lumber.
- Durable strength for demanding projects
- VOC-compliant solvent
- Waterproof
- Superior strength
- Bonds heaviest materials
- Fast initial grab
- Exceptional durability
Indiana Floor, Inc.: Your One-Stop Shop for Quality Flooring Products
Since 1993, Indiana Floor has been the leading choice of contractor supply to the hardwood flooring trades. We offer a vast inventory of finished, unfinished, engineered flooring, sundries, and tools to meet customers’ needs. With 5 locations in the MD and VA areas, we are dedicated to providing quality flooring products to our clients. Contact us today at (703) 550-0020 or fill out the contact form on our website!