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You can install this kind of flooring straight on top of chipboard usually. I know of a brand called Amtico that I've heard anecdotally are quite good, but I've never fitted them myself. I'd personally recommend either over-boarding or replacing your chipboard floor with plywood. Chipboard...

I'm about to pull up some chipboard flooring in a bedroom, which also happens to be in an extended bedroom that extends over our garage. So there are 2 things I could do with some advice on. Firstly, the room is much colder than the rest of the house, probably not only because it's above the...

Thanks Tony. Hadn't thought of chicken wire. I read somewhere about using wooden strips to keep the insulation near the joists too, but chicken wire would certainly be cheaper. What should I use to replace the sub-floor too? Some people say chipboard floor panels are terrible, but not...

Thanks for that. I've realised I missed a fairly vital bit of info from my question... The rooms are both above a garage, so there's no heating or insulation below these rooms. One of them is partly above a garage (a former box room of a 1930s semi, extended to make it wider, therefore over...

Hi, I've got two bedrooms in an extension where the flooring is really botched and falling to bits. It's a mish-mash of bits of chipboard with various bits chipped and broken, so I want to replace the whole thing properly. So my first question is, should I replace with subfloor-grade...

I know this kind of question has been asked before, but I've seen lots of conflicting information and am a bit stuck. I want to build a series of fixed shelves in 4 alcoves, all of which are around 1 metre wide, and about 35 inches deep. I started building a torsion box shelf using 8mm MDF on...

I can't find this topic addressed elsewhere, so I assume I'm just the only idiot who's done this.. I did a huge amount of prep on my wooden floorboards to varnish them, and they looked great, but I've sanded and varnished two adjoining rooms and the hallway that joins them. The problem is...