Hi Folks, hope you can help.
Refurbishing the ground floor cloakroom to replace WC and found a problem with the floor. Construction was from top to bottom.
Tiles
Lino!
Chipboard
Blue Membrane
Polystyrene
The tiles were cut round the WC and there was a leak from the WC connector so the chipboard here is totally knackered by water damage.
The room is 2m x 1m with 1 of the long walls being external, the remaing being stud. The chipboard had a T&G joint across the middle of the room and the chipboard under the stud walls looks OK.
The building was built in the 1980's and doing some research presume that I have a floating chipboard floor.
2 questions - how do I repair this?
Do I cut out the worst damaged area, and get some ply or chipboard to fill the hole. But how do I secure this to the rest of the floor - just glue it round the enges?
My wife wanted tiles - but can't see a way to get a solid base so this looks like a non starter. If I go for vinyl instead do I do the above repair then put a thin ply sheet over the whole floor to get a smooth base.
Refurbishing the ground floor cloakroom to replace WC and found a problem with the floor. Construction was from top to bottom.
Tiles
Lino!
Chipboard
Blue Membrane
Polystyrene
The tiles were cut round the WC and there was a leak from the WC connector so the chipboard here is totally knackered by water damage.
The room is 2m x 1m with 1 of the long walls being external, the remaing being stud. The chipboard had a T&G joint across the middle of the room and the chipboard under the stud walls looks OK.
The building was built in the 1980's and doing some research presume that I have a floating chipboard floor.
2 questions - how do I repair this?
Do I cut out the worst damaged area, and get some ply or chipboard to fill the hole. But how do I secure this to the rest of the floor - just glue it round the enges?
My wife wanted tiles - but can't see a way to get a solid base so this looks like a non starter. If I go for vinyl instead do I do the above repair then put a thin ply sheet over the whole floor to get a smooth base.
