Fitting Chip Board Flooring

Continue to lay chipboard flooring across the joists for the rest of the floor ensuring the joints along the 600mm edges are staggered always avoid joining on the same joist wherever possible.

Fitting chip board flooring. Screw down the boards sink 1 1 4 inch screws through the chipboard into the. High density chipboard can be used as sub floor with various types of flooring such as slate tile stone wood carpet or vinyl flooring. There will also be additional costs for floor fitting services such as underlay which you can read more about below. It s just one less thing for you to worry about.

To do this hold the saw flat against a scrap piece of flooring to use as a guide and press the saw. For a 5m x 5m room installing an engineered wooden floor with a cost of 30 per square metre for the floor itself and 20 per square metre for installation would cost around 1 400 taking extras into account. Where the screw head has gone into the chipboard. Some of my screw recesses where i ve screwed the chipboard to the joists are too deep creating shallow holes 5mm in dia.

I ve laid a floor with 8 x2 green chipboard flooring screwed into timber joists i now have a roll of 2mm thick vinyl flooring i want to lay over this problem 1. An enhanced moisture resistant tongue and groove structural flooring board egger p5 is the backbone of our structural chipboard flooring products. Depending on the chipboard flooring product you use the method of how to lay a chipboard floor can vary between manufacturers and product ranges. How to lay chipboard flooring.

Step 1 decide on the right type of chipboard. If you re trying to install flooring around doors for example you might find that the floating floor doesn t quite fit beneath the casing. Alongside our standard fitting service we offer an uplift and disposal service which for a small fee means the fitters will take up and dispose of your old flooring before they fit your new one. Lay out all the boards across the floor testing their fit and adjusting as needed before screwing the boards down.

Trim these door casings with a flush cut dovetail saw if the flooring doesn t fit underneath the casings. Your sub floor joists should be at 400mm centres meaning the edge of the boards always falls on a joist too. Each board is machine profiled with unique diamond tipped tooling to achieve a precision tongue and groove for a tighter more consistent board joint.