Get moisture protection and a wood floor adhesive in one bostik s best urethane glue has very low moisture vapor permeability and is not adversely affected by moisture vapor.
Hardwood floor glue for concrete.
Yes you can and i glue together and install tongue and groove white oak flooring into panels and glue those sections onto the concrete floor in my shop u.
Be advised that over strapping can adversely affect the floor and may result in glue bond failure seam peaking twisted boards or out of square floor board alignment.
In most instances hardwood flooring is never glued directly to concrete.
Typically solid flooring used for glue down installations is quartersawn to produce the most stable board possible.
Check with the manufacturer of your engineered wood to ensure that it s viable with the process.
That being said all wood flooring is a natural product and will move with varying moisture and humidity levels and solid wood flooring will move more than engineered because it is not stabilized by alternating directional layers.
As a result it will reduce moisture vapor transmission through concrete.
And for do it yourselfers the preferred method is the floating floor installation which uses no glue or nails.
Some engineered wood flooring products are designed for a glue down application when installing flooring over a concrete slab.