[Superman]

I don't know how I'm going to connect this topic with Dubya and WMD, but I have curiosity about flooring. I am needing to put a floor in my basement. It is below grade, but dry as a bone. Sealed, I think. At any rate, the builder of this house made all the right decisions and this basement is DRY, so I think I can get away with a wood-type floor.

Technically, bamboo is a grass but it behaves in ways similar to a wood floor, and it installs the same. I know I will need to make sure the floor is sufficiently level. For the most part, I think it is.

Conventional wisdom is that you either nail or glue the boards down, depending on the subsurface. Here, concrete. So.....glue. But I don't want to do it that way. I would prefer to place an insulating mat down, and connect the boards with each other but not glue them to the floor. This would be a free-floating floor where the boards either snap together or they are glued, tongue-and-groove.

Nobody here seems to know as much as I do about politics or religion, but it's just feasible that somebody may have some information about flooring that I don't already know. Bring it on!