Chipboard flooring which side up

They just need to be strong enough to hold my weight when I'm stumbing around a maze of fink trusses with a torch. Show 4 more comments. Active Oldest Votes. Part sentence below the second image relates to cutting the tongue "slightly nearer the bottom surface than the top": Incidentally the gap on the underside mentioned on the first image is the clincher.

Improve this answer. Add a comment. Jack Jack It's for a loft platform, which presumably means that there is no subfloor on which to place either construction adhesive or paper. I can't see a reason for it not to have subfloor, a loft, in my terminology is a floor that is breaking up a large volume of a room with cathedral ceiling.

An exerpt from Wiki says "is roughly synonymous with attic, the major difference being that an attic typically constitutes an entire floor of the building, while a loft covers only a few rooms, leaving one or more sides open to the lower floor. Other places I visited had subfloor as well in the loft. I have not seen many, but I have seen them It doesn't usually over here, and without further qualification mean the arrangement in your comment, which is more of a mezzanine.

I'd screw it, personally, rather than nail, for 2 reasons. I'd also remove the tongue from 2 or 3 small strategic pieces, specifically to enable easy access later. Iggy Iggy 9, 12 12 silver badges 35 35 bronze badges. If you plan to blind-nail through the lower lip of the groove, you'd want the thick lip down.

You would never put a nail near the seam and that is what the other answers are missing. I did a house years back that wanted to spotlight some antique nails that had fancy heads on them and we used this type of flooring and popped nails into each board.

These aren't meant to be sanded down as the nails would get in the way. Trevor Stewart Trevor Stewart 31 2 2 bronze badges. Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password.

Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. There's a bit of creaking in places, but I guess that's normal. The house was build around and may be it's normal but there are annoying things like the internal walls are built on-top of the chipboard flooring which potentially makes replacement awkward. Easy mistake to make I guess. Joined: 3 Sep Country:. Select the supplier or trade you require, enter your location to begin your search.

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Hi, No it won't make any difference. Andy Dingley.