Chipboard flooring wrong way up!
Al
I've just noticed that I've laid all the chipboard floor boards for the
whole upstairs of the house upside down! Needed a couple of extra boards to
finish the job, and the printed message "Lay this side down" was much
clearer on the new boards than the first lot :-(
Is this likely to present much of a problem? They seemed to go down well,
with nice tight joints. I really don't want to have to get them all up !!!
The floor will eventually be carpeted.
Has anyone got any opinions here before I start sticking the stud partions
up? (I wonder if I can get them the wrong way round!)
Graham
No it won't make any difference.
Personally real flooring is stronger and water-robust,
I use white-wood or cedar, but chipboard is much of a muchness
Next time you do flooring I'd check out using real wood from a
timber-yard.
The only thing I'd check is if it is stronger one way up than the
other
- but I doubt it.
Graham
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Restoredclassic
>I use white-wood
The only snag with tongue-and-grooved , real wood , floorboards is that they
shrink usually due to modern central heated houses.( Even after using
floor-board clamps when fitted)
Thomas Prufer
<sorrytoo...@thesedays.com> wrote:
>Is this likely to present much of a problem? They seemed to go down well,
>with nice tight joints. I really don't want to have to get them all up !!!
>The floor will eventually be carpeted.
AFAIK the imprint identifies which way the tongue and grooves fit
together best, ie all either "This side up" -- or all the other way.
So you should be all right unless you start to mix them and still use
the t&g (though I've done that to avoid lots of waste in fitting
fiddly bits, and it was all right too).
Thomas Prufer
Andy Dingley
<sorrytoo...@thesedays.com> wrote:
>Is this likely to present much of a problem?
Depends on the tongue and groove. Small T&G won't matter. The big
tapered ones are designed so that it's easier to lift individual
boards, when laid the right way. Do it wrong and you have to start
from the last wall you laid, then work back.
I certainly wouldn't lift and turn it.