Hi,
As mentioned in another post, I'm planning on laying a T&G oak floor over some recently exposed joists. Like many Victorian terraces, our house has pretty puny joists (6x2.5), so even with securely nailed boards, you tend to notice every footstep rattling every bit of furniture in the room.
Clearly, I'm not going to fix this completely without doing major work on the joists - which isn't going to happen. However, a friend who has recently laid a lot of oak floors said that he'd nailed padding (in the form of cut up carpet tiles!) between the joists and the boards to provide a little cushioning. Does anyone have any experience with doing something like this? Obviously I've seen underlays for floating floors, but I haven't seen people talking about it when attaching directly to joists. My main worry is that anything that has a genuine cushioning effect must be allowing movement, which is presumably a recipe for loose boards in the long run, no?
Thanks,
Lucian
As mentioned in another post, I'm planning on laying a T&G oak floor over some recently exposed joists. Like many Victorian terraces, our house has pretty puny joists (6x2.5), so even with securely nailed boards, you tend to notice every footstep rattling every bit of furniture in the room.
Clearly, I'm not going to fix this completely without doing major work on the joists - which isn't going to happen. However, a friend who has recently laid a lot of oak floors said that he'd nailed padding (in the form of cut up carpet tiles!) between the joists and the boards to provide a little cushioning. Does anyone have any experience with doing something like this? Obviously I've seen underlays for floating floors, but I haven't seen people talking about it when attaching directly to joists. My main worry is that anything that has a genuine cushioning effect must be allowing movement, which is presumably a recipe for loose boards in the long run, no?
Thanks,
Lucian
