Fitting hardwood flooring to chipboard is a cost effective and convenient solution. Chipboard is a really popular sub floor and is commonly used today in both new build and refurbishment projects.
How to Lay Hardwood Floors over Chipboard How to Lay Hardwood Floors over Chipboard. Many people wonder whether chipboard is a good flooring for hardwood floors. While it is not the ideal sub floor to install hardwood on, it can be done. ... Depending on how you are laying the wood, you will need to prepare the sub floor in a different manner ...
all solid wood flooring needs to be either secret nailed or fully glued to the subfloor, chipboard is not ok for this so you need to ply over as stated. do not glue the tongue and groove or use elastion underlay.
Glueing a solid wood floor over chipboard
Laying a modern Solid wood or engineered wood floor over original suspended wooden floor
Self levelling compound on a first floor room which has chipboard floor? I am laying a 20mm, t&g solid wood floor. The sub floor is chip board and not even. I am laying down a 5mm fibreboard and floating the wood ...
Fitting Hardwood Floors Over Solid Subfloors This entry was posted on March 15, 2012 by JoJo . If you've been charmed by the appeal of wood flooring but have discovered your subfloor to be concrete, tiles or asphalt, don't be dismayed by this as you can still lay beautiful hardwood floors on top.
Chipboard. A chipboard subfloor can be treated in a similar way to concrete. Solid wood flooring must be glued directly down to the chipboard. Engineered wood flooring can be floated over an underlay, without fixing it down, or if required, it can be glued directly onto the chipboard.
The Chipboard sub base acts as a membrane and is also a perfectly clean and level surface to either glue or nail your solid wooden floor to. The chipboard is normally screwed down into the concrete using hammer fixings but beware of drilling into any pipes.
16/10/2007 · Hi I am thinking on laying solid wood floor onto the floor of my new extension which the builder appears to have constructed out of wide TinG chipboard boards.
A subfloor of floorboards or plywood is perfect for installing solid wood flooring, however, it should not be used over chipboard because it is not strong enough to hold the flooring. If the floorboards are not in good condition you should lay 12mm plywood first.::::::::
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