Fitting Chip Board Flooring

Lay out all the boards across the floor testing their fit and adjusting as needed before screwing the boards down.

Fitting chip board flooring.

It s just one less thing for you to worry about. Screw down the boards sink 1 1 4 inch screws through the chipboard into the. Where the screw head has gone into the chipboard. However we ve outlined a brief guide to fitting chipboard flooring to demonstrate the potential steps involved in laying a chipboard floor.

Trim these door casings with a flush cut dovetail saw if the flooring doesn t fit underneath the casings. Depending on the chipboard flooring product you use the method of how to lay a chipboard floor can vary between manufacturers and product ranges. Each board is machine profiled with unique diamond tipped tooling to achieve a precision tongue and groove for a tighter more consistent board joint. There will also be additional costs for floor fitting services such as underlay which you can read more about below.

To do this hold the saw flat against a scrap piece of flooring to use as a guide and press the saw. Solid timber has a longer life span than chipboard flooring does but high density chipboard is less expensive and quite durable. 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. Some of my screw recesses where i ve screwed the chipboard to the joists are too deep creating shallow holes 5mm in dia.

Step 1 decide on the right type of chipboard. 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. 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. High density chipboard can be used as sub floor with various types of flooring such as slate tile stone wood carpet or vinyl flooring.

Find out what you can expect from our professional fitting service by clicking here. 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. 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.