Replacing floorboards

Discussion in 'Carpenters' Talk' started by lemonade, Feb 20, 2017.

  1. lemonade

    lemonade Member

    Could someone give me some advice on the best way to deal with this.

    I need to replace two floorboards next to each other but I couldn't buy the original 22mm x 112mm floorboards so I had to buy 18mm x 108mm but now I have big gaps between each floorboard and I need to raise the floorboards 4mm. I did think of buying a piece of hardboard and fixing it to the new floorboards but will this look stupid.
     
  2. Astramax

    Astramax Super Member

    Only if it's on the top! :D
     
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  3. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    HB is 3mm, ply is 4MM.
     
  4. Astramax

    Astramax Super Member

    Put the packing on each joist to raise the boards. Buy a length of 19 x 12 and pin it to one of the board sides.
     
  5. KIAB

    KIAB Super Member

    Find a better timber merchant.
     
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  6. sospan

    sospan Screwfix Select

    You would be better keeping what you bought for another project and try and source some old style floor boards from a salvage yard or have a wander around the streets to see what is iin some skips
     
  7. lemonade

    lemonade Member

    I've tried but you cannot buy 22mm x 112mm floorboards that was used in the 1960.
     
  8. Astramax

    Astramax Super Member

    Could combine it and look for 'road kill' at the same time.
     
  9. Jord86

    Jord86 Screwfix Select

    Reclamation yard.
     
  10. CGN

    CGN Screwfix Select

    Are the floorboards on show? Just checking as if not, bodge any old bit of wood in there :)
     
  11. KIAB

    KIAB Super Member

    In the past I've lifted floorboards from a cupboard to patch an exsisting floor which was visible, & put down ply in cupboard.
     
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  12. dwlondon

    dwlondon Active Member

    A proper timber yard can cut to size and plane to thickness. A real work place with sawdust and men having a swear and a roll up.

    Not a shed with people in aprons.
     
  13. Joe95

    Joe95 Screwfix Select

    I'm glad I'm not the only one on here who goes skip hunting!:) There is always some good stuff to be found.
     
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  14. Joe95

    Joe95 Screwfix Select

    You're describing chips there...:p
     
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  15. KIAB

    KIAB Super Member

    Another one who goes skip hunting,even on holiday,:oops: had some great finds.:)
     
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  16. Astramax

    Astramax Super Member

    Isn't that 'The Great British Bake Off'
     
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  17. Pollowick

    Pollowick Screwfix Select

    As said already, a decent real timber yard will machine that for you in minutes. As you are fitting these in, T&G is not needed and will get in the way.
     
  18. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    You can get timber that thick and even wider but you would have to do the t&g yourself.
    I came of the rollies 15 years ago, my lungs are still buggered.
     
  19. lemonade

    lemonade Member

    I went to my local timber merchant today and they only do 18mm and 20mm floorboards so if I bought a thicker piece of timber would they be able to rip it down with the table saw they have.
     
  20. chippie244

    chippie244 Super Member

    Where are you based?
     

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