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KillingTime
Hi,
I'm in the process of replacing the 19mm 8x2ft t&g flooring on the 1st floor of my house.
Both the bathroom floors are shot (long term leaks).
The landing floor is shot (power show pump leaks from above).
When I say 'shot' I mean you can push a screwdriver through it. It's worst next to stud walls.
All the stud walls at the 1st floor rest on the floor, and many stud walls don't even rest directly above a joist (run parallel).
I just want to know what I'm getting into here. Replacing the odd board is one thing. What do people do in my position when their floors have gone right up the edge of the stud wall?
I could cut either side of the wall and nail in loads of noggins to suport the wall, and lay the new floor up to every wall....sounds like alot of effort.
What happens when you get to a doorway? (also nailed to the floor). Cutting round every obstacle seems like a recipie for disaster.
Replacing all the floors in one go (like the house was built, one big floor, then the walls ontop of that), will not be possible without wrecking every wall becasue the walls are nailed to the floor. This means you cant slide the floor out from under the wall. Even if I cut away the plasterboard on every wall to get to the nails holding the wall down, I doubt whether I could get the nails out without wrecking the stud timbers (recessed nail heads)......
Replacing the floor one room at a time sounded good initially, but experience has shown me that T&G flooring gets it's strength from the t&g. If you lay all the floors up to the stud wall / doorway, you have to put in loads of under floor supports (noggins etc) to hold the board where it ends for strength.
I'm half tempted to move out and get the whole 1st floor, walls, plastering and all done on contract.
Is this a DIY project or one for the professionals?
Thanks,
I'm in the process of replacing the 19mm 8x2ft t&g flooring on the 1st floor of my house.
Both the bathroom floors are shot (long term leaks).
The landing floor is shot (power show pump leaks from above).
When I say 'shot' I mean you can push a screwdriver through it. It's worst next to stud walls.
All the stud walls at the 1st floor rest on the floor, and many stud walls don't even rest directly above a joist (run parallel).
I just want to know what I'm getting into here. Replacing the odd board is one thing. What do people do in my position when their floors have gone right up the edge of the stud wall?
I could cut either side of the wall and nail in loads of noggins to suport the wall, and lay the new floor up to every wall....sounds like alot of effort.
What happens when you get to a doorway? (also nailed to the floor). Cutting round every obstacle seems like a recipie for disaster.
Replacing all the floors in one go (like the house was built, one big floor, then the walls ontop of that), will not be possible without wrecking every wall becasue the walls are nailed to the floor. This means you cant slide the floor out from under the wall. Even if I cut away the plasterboard on every wall to get to the nails holding the wall down, I doubt whether I could get the nails out without wrecking the stud timbers (recessed nail heads)......
Replacing the floor one room at a time sounded good initially, but experience has shown me that T&G flooring gets it's strength from the t&g. If you lay all the floors up to the stud wall / doorway, you have to put in loads of under floor supports (noggins etc) to hold the board where it ends for strength.
I'm half tempted to move out and get the whole 1st floor, walls, plastering and all done on contract.
Is this a DIY project or one for the professionals?
Thanks,