Search results

Thanks for that link.. don't know why i didn't find it before. I shall nail, and hope that the joists are not too much like iron. I shall put in one other joist first so that i can try to follow the "cross 3 joists for a floating end or end on a joist" rule, though i expect that this is going...

I assume from that, that you do not recommend it. I do not claim to actually know what i am talking about here... i am just trying to get to grips with what i have been able to glean from various sites, and advice offered about laying onto joists is so thin as to be non-existant. It seems...

Surely it wouldn't move any further than when floated onto a solid base... it would only have the regulation 8-10mm around the edge (incidentally there will be a partition wall in the middle which could be screwed through the floor into one of the joists... anchoring the whole lot). Also all the...

Thanks for the reply, but... Does this mean that i can't float the floor (which would be quicker... i also know from experience that these 150 yr old oak joists bend nails as soon as looking at them)? What if the joists are further apart than 40cms (they are not regularly spaced)? I could...

I am about to lay solid oak T & G floor onto oak joists in an old house (loft conversion). Each board is 13cm wide and 2.5cm thick, varying lengths. There is no existing flooring (removed long ago) but the top surface of the joists seems flat and level. There is no ceiling below (i.e...