Bedroom floorboards.

emerald21

Hi my son needs to replace a bedroom floor as some of the boards are wet and move up and down. It is the same stuff that is used for putting floors in lofts please? Also is it a doable job for diy people to keep the costs down ? Thank you.

Alter_ego

Best to sort out the reason they are wet first. Loft boards are really only to allow storage in the loft, not really good enough for furniture and people moving about in a habitable room.

emerald21

Alter_ego wrote: »

Best to sort out the reason they are wet first. Loft boards are really only to allow storage in the loft, not really good enough for furniture and people moving about in a habitable room.

Yes good idea lol. What are these boards called then please ?

Jimmy_Neutron

Floorboards

societys_child

As above^, usually T&G (tongue and groove) floorboards.

LandyAndy

Jimmy_Neutron wrote: »

Floorboards

societys_child wrote: »

As above^, usually T&G (tongue and groove) floorboards.

Well my current house (built 1969) has wooden boards but my previous one (built 1985) had sheets of what I would describe as chipboard.

Ebe_Scrooge

LandyAndy wrote: »

Well my current house (built 1969) has wooden boards but my previous one (built 1985) had sheets of what I would describe as chipboard.

My current ( 13 year old ) house has chipboard floors throughout.


OP, if you Google for "Chipboard flooring" you'll find any number of examples.

societys_child

Yep, I was going to add that it could be sheet T&G chipboard but thought they'd probably notice the difference when they went to buy it . . .

Silvertabby

Our 24 year old house has wooden floorboards upstairs, and chipboard downstairs.

OP needs to identify exactly what they need before going any further!

manda1205

Yes it's a do-able DIY job. We've just done one of our bedrooms. We had woodworm in some of ours, although we think it wasn't live any more, we were re-plastering so we thought we might as well pull up the floor too. We just bought the newer t&g style chipboard flooring
Wasn't hard to do at all. Pulled the old boards out and then laid down the new, we used decking screws to hold it down.