Carpet for basements: what subfloor is needed?

For carpet for basements, you will want to consider sub-flooring. This will give you a cushion between the actual basement floor, usually concrete, and the carpeting, in the event of a water issue. It will also give your carpeting a more professional, uniform look and feel. The best choice for sub-flooring in this instance, is a woven, rubber sub-flooring. The weave design will help any moisture to evaporate, or be cleaned up with a shop vac if needed, as well as the rubber itself ridding of any worry of mold and mildew issues. Aside from that, the woven rubber sub-flooring will not break down as easily as wood or foam sub floor.