The boards were fixed with secret nails or nails through the tongue and groove bit of the board before the next board was slotted into place. Very few of them have nails through the face of the boards, as in the picture. I'm not sure a secret nailer was used as I don't know what this looks like...
Right! It's taken me a while to work out how to upload images, I think I have done it by creating a folder entitled 'floor.'
In answer to the various questions:
- my builder has vented the space underneath the floor by inserting air bricks in the external wall (this was as per advice from...
We've recently had a part one-storey, part two-storey extension to the rear of our 1930s home comprising a kitchen/diner and 4th bedroom upstairs. Keen to be ecologically savvy we decided to go for reclaimed pine boards in the kitchen/diner that would match in with the original 1930s boards...