Wickes real wood flooring

Kit

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Jul 21, 2012, 3:23:35 AM7/21/12

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I've just started to lay some Wickes real oak tongue and groove
flooring. This has 2 grooves cut on the back of the boards and uses
thin metal clips to hold adjacent boards together.

This is proving very difficult to assemble. You have to clip adjacent
boards together, then slide the board along so that the tongue at the
end of the board engages. This causes the clips to twist and bind so
that they start to climb out of the groove or pull the bottom of the
boards together and the floor bulges at the top.

Has anyone got any tips for this? Is it possible to abandon the clips
altogether and just glue the boards instead. Or could it be laid
completly loose and rely on the cork edging strip to keep it together.
Room size approx 4m x 5m.

Thanks for any advice.
Kit Jackson

Tim Watts

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Jul 21, 2012, 6:03:13 AM7/21/12

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Can you not dispense with the clips and glue the joints? Most T+G (as
opposed to click-fit) floating flooring (which I assume this is) is usually
glued.

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Tim Watts

Kit

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Jul 24, 2012, 3:52:48 PM7/24/12

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Tim Watts wrote:

>
> Can you not dispense with the clips and glue the joints? Most T+G (as
> opposed to click-fit) floating flooring (which I assume this is) is usually
> glued.
>
>

Thanks Tim, that's what I started to do only to find dire warnings on a
web site that glueing a floating solid wood floor was a no-no but no
explanation of why.

The only alternative I could think of was to
pin the floor lightly every few rows to allow it a little room for
expansion but not enough so that the whole floor could walk. The
underside of the boards is a fairly rough cut and I can see that as it
expands and contracts a little bit on the fibreboard underlay it could
start to travel in one direction. But maybe I'm getting too concerned.

Kit Jackson

Tim Watts

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Jul 25, 2012, 1:55:17 AM7/25/12

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Kit wrote:

> Tim Watts wrote:
>
>>
>> Can you not dispense with the clips and glue the joints? Most T+G (as
>> opposed to click-fit) floating flooring (which I assume this is) is
>> usually glued.
>>
>>
>
> Thanks Tim, that's what I started to do only to find dire warnings on a
> web site that glueing a floating solid wood floor was a no-no but no
> explanation of why.

"a website"? Which one?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I've not heard that before - and given all
floating flooring has to be self-cohesive (ie joined and move/expand as a
single unit) I fail to see why.

>
> The only alternative I could think of was to
> pin the floor lightly every few rows to allow it a little room for
> expansion but not enough so that the whole floor could walk.

That sounds more likely to have issues than gluing.

> The
> underside of the boards is a fairly rough cut and I can see that as it
> expands and contracts a little bit on the fibreboard underlay it could
> start to travel in one direction. But maybe I'm getting too concerned.
>
> Kit Jackson

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Tim Watts

NT

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Jul 25, 2012, 7:07:42 AM7/25/12

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Wood expands and contracts sideways as temp and RH change. Its also
prone to warping a bit, cupping etc. Hence if they can be got to work,
metal clips would be much better than glue or pins. If they cant, I'd
take it back as faulty or unfit, and just buy real wood, its much
cheaper and as good.

NT

Kit

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Jul 25, 2012, 4:27:53 PM7/25/12

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Tim Watts wrote:

> Kit wrote:
>
>> Tim Watts wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Can you not dispense with the clips and glue the joints? Most T+G (as
>>> opposed to click-fit) floating flooring (which I assume this is) is
>>> usually glued.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks Tim, that's what I started to do only to find dire warnings on a
>> web site that glueing a floating solid wood floor was a no-no but no
>> explanation of why.
>
> "a website"? Which one?
>

http://www.britishhardwoods.co.uk/fitting.php
under iii) Floating they say
"ON NO ACCOUNT should floorboards be glued together and floated."

http://www.woodandbeyond.com/blog/diy-wood-flooring-installation-guide/
under Floating Installation they discuss gluing and then add
"PLEASE NOTE: Due to the movement of a solid wood floor you should not
use a floating installation."

Do you disagree?

Kit Jackson

NT

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Jul 25, 2012, 6:56:25 PM7/25/12

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If you glue & float it, there's the likelihood of raised sections
cropping up. Not good.

NT

tyler4r...@gmail.com

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Sep 4, 2018, 9:12:48 AM9/4/18

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I would love to know where to get the clips to do my Oak floor bought the flooring but they did not have the metal clips & no one sells them cannot even find them online everywhere states not available

Andrew

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Sep 4, 2018, 1:41:30 PM9/4/18

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On 04/09/2018 14:12, tyler4r...@gmail.com wrote:
> I would love to know where to get the clips to do my Oak floor bought the flooring but they did not have the metal clips & no one sells them cannot even find them online everywhere states not available
>

Consider yourself lucky then because the clips are almost impossible to
use as intended.

read the reviews on the Wickes website and you will probably see what
other people have done.

I glued all my 18mm 'hardwood' t&G 'planks' (varying from 300mm
to 1200mm in length) and 120mm width to create full size planks
480 mm wide and the full length of the room. Then I fixed these
big composite planks with spax screws through the tongue.

John Rumm

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Sep 4, 2018, 1:47:40 PM9/4/18

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On 04/09/2018 14:12, tyler4r...@gmail.com wrote:

> I would love to know where to get the clips to do my Oak floor bought the flooring but they did not have the metal clips & no one sells them cannot even find them online everywhere states not available

Which clips are these? What type of oak floor? (i.e. solid, engineered,
laminate etc)

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Cheers,

John.

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