Fitting Chip Board Flooring

An enhanced moisture resistant tongue and groove structural flooring board egger p5 is the backbone of our structural chipboard flooring products.

Fitting chip board flooring.

However we ve outlined a brief guide to fitting chipboard flooring to demonstrate the potential steps involved in laying a chipboard floor. Find out what you can expect from our professional fitting service by clicking here. Solid timber has a longer life span than chipboard flooring does but high density chipboard is less expensive and quite durable. There will also be additional costs for floor fitting services such as underlay which you can read more about below.

Your sub floor joists should be at 400mm centres meaning the edge of the boards always falls on a joist too. Depending on the chipboard flooring product you use the method of how to lay a chipboard floor can vary between manufacturers and product ranges. Where the screw head has gone into the chipboard. High density chipboard can be used as sub floor with various types of flooring such as slate tile stone wood carpet or vinyl flooring.

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. To do this hold the saw flat against a scrap piece of flooring to use as a guide and press the saw. 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. Lay out all the boards across the floor testing their fit and adjusting as needed before screwing the boards down.

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. It s just one less thing for you to worry about. Each board is machine profiled with unique diamond tipped tooling to achieve a precision tongue and groove for a tighter more consistent board joint. How to lay chipboard flooring.

Screw down the boards sink 1 1 4 inch screws through the chipboard into the. Step 1 decide on the right type of chipboard. Some of my screw recesses where i ve screwed the chipboard to the joists are too deep creating shallow holes 5mm in dia.