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Interesting – I also was going to lay a plywood base and nail the oak (secretly through the tongue) because it seemed more proper. Maybe, just maybe, I need to rethink.

You are truly a font of knowledge and I thank you for your time.

While I’m on a roll of asking stupid questions I might as well ask one more. If each board is nailed how does it expand over it’s whole length? Surely every board is fixed tight.

Again, thanks. Can I ask what the underlay is for?

Great reply – thanks a lot. I was going to nail (secret nail through tongue) the new oak floor. Is this still called a floating floor and will it still need an underlay? How think is the underlay, just a roll of foam under the oak or under the subfloor – sorry, that’s a really stupid...

Morning all, I come here following extensive, but fruitless research and I’d like to call on your collective knowledge. I’m laying a solid oak floor. The oak is 15mm tongue-and-groove boarding and I’m laying over floorboards, which sit on joists. I’m removing the skirting boards. I’ve...