Laminate flooring over concrete / wood

mark206000 · 25 Jul 2017

Hi,

Redoing the kitchen and it is part concrete and part chipboard floor.

The floors are level with each other, but the chipboard side has a slight bit of movement along the join, about 4mm if I'm bouncing myself on the edge of it, in normal day to day I wouldn't be bouncing right on the edge !

We are going to use laminate on the floor. Do you think boarding across this will be an issue with 8mm laminate and decent underlay ?

Cheers !
Mark

Doggit · 25 Jul 2017

As long as it goes at 90 degrees to the join, it'll be fine, if it runs parallel, then there might be an issue; you'd need to make sure that the centre of the board was directly over the join.

mark206000 · 26 Jul 2017

Thanks for the reply. If the centre of a board is over the join then is the adjacent boards edge not going to be at it ?

There's a slight run downward on the chip side also now I've noticed

Doggit · 26 Jul 2017

You'd need to do a bit of carefull planning keep edges off of the gap, but they'd still be supported by the boards either side, so you should bo okay. You could use some 2 part body filler to create a feather edge slope on top of the chipboard. It won't be perfect as there's a bit of spring under the edge, but hopefully, even if it cracks underneath, it shouls still proved a degree of support.

mark206000 · 19 Sep 2017

Cheers for the reply. Just seen some click laminate, think it may solve all my problems !

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