I was reading on the side of the pallet for Dri Core panels that you need to cover them with 1/4 inch plywood before covering with most flooring options.

1. What did you use to cover/finish your dri core floor panels?

2. Have you had any problems with what you did?


Was hoping to put down dricore floor and then cover with carpet tiles found at Home Depot. Anyone have any experience with those?

I simply had wall-to-wall carpeting with a high quality carpet pad installed over top of it. The installers had never install carpeting on dricore before but they had no issues doing it.

Fromthe dricore website, it only suggests another layer when installing vinyl sheets or tiles.
For carpet it just goes directly on the dricore. They caution against glueing directly to the dricore panels thought, so that may work against carpet tiles, dependin on how sticky they are. This is probably due to the design that allows the panels to shift with humidity changes.
I am just going to pad and carpet right over mine. Not sure how I'll do the bathroom though.

Paul

you need to cover them with 1/4 inch plywood before covering with most flooring options.

This is news to me. I HOPE that's not the case and I don't recall seeing that except for, as mentioned, tile or glue. There is a finish to the dricore that makes them somewhat slippery. I have the dricore down in my open theater/barroom and my plan is to just pad and carpet over about half of it (the actual theater area) and put down a pergo-style on the rest of it, using only the underlayment and then the floor boards.

Good luck,
Tom

Yeah, unless you are doing tile or glued down vinyl floor, I do not think you put another layer on top of the dricore. Pergo type floors might have a foam layer that goes down before the pergo, but then you can go right on top of the dricore. Same thing with carpet - probably a pad and carpet right over the dricore, no problem.

Most of my flooring will be carpet and pergo style stuff directly on the dricore. The bathroom vinyl is installed directly on the dricore with no luan as you would usually do. I chose not to simply because the actual floor space was only about 6x6 and all four walls are nailed through the dricore into the concrete. So there will be no major shifting of the pannels in the bathroom. So far it looks great...We'll see if I regret it later. :-) I bought a tub of leveler stuff just to smooth some of the dricore seams but they were so tight I ended up not using it and just taking it back.

sconner

I had the carpet installed over it, no problems. It has been completed for nearly 3 1/2 years ago, absolutely no problems.

Did/does everyone build all of their interior walls directly on the Dricore subfloor?

By not having the walls run all the way to the floor is noise from other rooms (ie adjacent mechanical / laundry rooms) or noise from within the theater able to enter/exit the theater room just like air does as it circulates beneath the Dricore panels?

Esentially, does the performance of the separation wall(s), which are constructed of staggered studs w/ 2 layers of 5/8 on both sides w/ GG, become negated by the fact that there is now a path for sound to travel under and up through the floor, which will only consist of Dricore panels w/ a good pad and carpet? Obviously this condition will only be relevant where the theater is separated from other rooms on the same floor.

If you watch the installation video on dricore's website, it says to have the walls and drywall up first. You then leave a 1/4" gap around the perimeter of the room. It helps isolate the room from sound transference beyond other benefits.