Firstly a thankyou to WoodYouLike and the rest of you. Advice you've given to other posters has preventing me from ruining 70 sq meters of flooring.
Earlier this year I bought (on impulse) a pallet of 83mm wide 18mm Solid Oak Flooring from B&Q intending to secret nail it to chipboard (PC was disconnected while rebuilding, so hadn't done any research). Now that my walls, floors and electrics are complete, I've reconnected the PC and reading the posts here, discovered that I've been foolish in many ways.
Chipboard and secrete nailing - bad idea - doesn't work
83mm - bad idea - can't float and takes ages
B&Q - bad idea - short pieces
Reading the forum, it seems my only option is glue the oak to the chipboard using parguet adhesive.
Question 1
I have seen three adhesives recommended in the posts (Stycco B92, Stycco B93 and Lecol 5500). May I ask if one is more suitable than the others of if I should just choose whichever I can get cheapest?
Question 2
In a number of posts it's stated that floating boards less than 100mmm wide is a bad idea. Could I ask what happens if you attemp to float narrower boards?
To anyone contemplating buying B&Q solid flooring, I can confirm WoodYouLikes is correct. I have opened 10 boxes and the average board length is 537mm. The worst pack contained 12 boards 300mm long.
My own fault, I didn't do the research to ask the right questions. It was however very cheap and (like all solid wood floors) is very. very pretty.
Earlier this year I bought (on impulse) a pallet of 83mm wide 18mm Solid Oak Flooring from B&Q intending to secret nail it to chipboard (PC was disconnected while rebuilding, so hadn't done any research). Now that my walls, floors and electrics are complete, I've reconnected the PC and reading the posts here, discovered that I've been foolish in many ways.
Chipboard and secrete nailing - bad idea - doesn't work
83mm - bad idea - can't float and takes ages
B&Q - bad idea - short pieces
Reading the forum, it seems my only option is glue the oak to the chipboard using parguet adhesive.
Question 1
I have seen three adhesives recommended in the posts (Stycco B92, Stycco B93 and Lecol 5500). May I ask if one is more suitable than the others of if I should just choose whichever I can get cheapest?
Question 2
In a number of posts it's stated that floating boards less than 100mmm wide is a bad idea. Could I ask what happens if you attemp to float narrower boards?
To anyone contemplating buying B&Q solid flooring, I can confirm WoodYouLikes is correct. I have opened 10 boxes and the average board length is 537mm. The worst pack contained 12 boards 300mm long.
My own fault, I didn't do the research to ask the right questions. It was however very cheap and (like all solid wood floors) is very. very pretty.