Taylor Wimpey New Build Floor? HELP

JONER1212

Hello,

I have reserved a new build with Taylor Wimpey and we are currently in the process of picking our options. One of the options we are discussing is the down lights and installation.

The query I have is does anybody know what kind of floor will be provided upstairs in a Taylor Wimpey new build? Is it chip board or floor boards? And does anyone know if these are easy enough to lift up to access underneath?

Any help or information on this would be extremely helpful, thank you

troffasky

It's going to be chipboard isn't it? Far cheaper and quicker to install. You should probably be asking them, however, rather than asking idiots on the internet to guess for you.

Grenage

Almost certainly chipboard, and they're a !!!!!! to take up and put down.

JONER1212

I was just wondering if anyone had moved into one recently that had an idea. Why is chipboard a nightmare?

Grenage

They clip into each other, so you can rarely simply lift a piece out. That's my experience.

System

zero chance of it being floor boards

thebigstillmeister

My previous house was a new Taylor Wimpey town house, it was all chip board flooring.

Agree with Grenage, they looked really stuck down and all clipped in to each other by the looks of it,

I think it would be a struggle to lift,

JONER1212

Thanks guys.

It may be a case of cutting along the edge of the joists with a circular saw and installing new batons when refitting them.

Andy_L

Can't you just get then to install down lights in the first place?

Cornucopia

When undertaking electrical installation work in a new build home, the best advice is to avoid taking up flooring on the floor above, but instead work wholly within the ceiling void, "fishing" cables in the void as required. Should be reasonably straightforward to convert a pendant fitting to downlighters, and I have done this myself, using this method.

Doozergirl

The chipboard floor goes down before the stud walls upstairs, so it's impossible to lift them.

However, I have dealt with this before and there is a jig and plastic rings that you can buy that allows you to cut essentially what are core holes, but replace them perfectly, using these clever rings to hold them in place.

We've purchased them from a place called Corroy Products.