How to Install Glued Parquet Wood Flooring
- 1). Divide the floor into four quadrants, laying two intersecting lines with your chalk snapline, from the middle of each edge of the floor to the middle of the edge of the floor across from it. Use a square to adjust the lines as you snap them, making sure they're 90 degrees off each other at the intersection.
- 2). Spread floor adhesive over the center of the floor with a notched adhesive trowel, covering a few square feet. You should still be able to see the chalk lines through the adhesive.
- 3). Press the first parquet tile in place at one of the four corners of the intersection so that it's bordered on two sides by the lines. Press additional tiles in around it, fitting them tightly together by the tongue-and-groove edging on the sides of the tiles.
- 4). Spread more adhesive and start building out from the middle of the floor toward the edges of the room in a grid pattern, using the lines to keep it all straight. Lay as many full tiles as will fit in the room, leaving the edges untiled. Let the adhesive set for 12 hours.
- 5). Measure the space left around the perimeter of the room. Mark the tile for each space with a pencil, then use a table saw to cut them. Cut them to be ¼-inch smaller than the space, so it leaves a gap by the wall that will allow the wood to expand with climate changes. Set the tiles in adhesive with the cut sides facing the walls. Let the cut tiles set 12 hours.
