engineered wood floor - advice please

[Angelina]

I have a ply floor (18mm) laid across the joists and want to know how thick the engineered wood needs to be to be load bearing please

thanks

[ed_pete]

I'm not sure what you mean.

"Load bearing" is a term normally applied to walls that are used to support the property structure (roof and floor joists). Are you planning on building a wall on top of the engineered floor or just plan to place something heavy there ?

[diable rouge]

As long as the plywood is nailed/screwed to the joists properly, it will provide all the 'load-bearing' you need for furniture/people walking about etc. Eng wood flooring is just a finish and doesn't have a 'load-bearing' capacity. It's inherent 'strength' is that it's not supposed to move, warp, split, crack etc like normal floorboards can. Junckers, a leading manufacturer, make most of their boards 14mm thick...