Although it is not impossible to float a solid wood floor successfully, generally speaking, floating a hardwood floor is not a great idea. The reason for this is that solid wood flooring is much more susceptible to movement than engineered flooring, due to fluctuating moisture and humidity levels.

Can you float hardwood over hardwood?

Putting a floating floor over your hardwood should be no problem whatsoever. ... This will ensure that the floor is stable so that your hardwood floor can act as a subfloor without any structural problems.

Can you float a tongue and groove hardwood floor?

Floating. Many tongue and groove floors can be floated over premium underlayment with good success. This is done by gluing the tongues and grooves together with a T&G adhesive. Unlike click-lock floating floors, T&G floors are not designed to be floated.