Nicoline Solid Hardwood Oak Flooring

[pancras]

Hi everyone

I am new to laying a floor. Makro currently have this hard wood selling for 13.99 per pack, 1sq metre pack. Which if any good would make it a wonderful buy for my poor budget consious pocket.

http://www.makro.co.uk/metro_mail/mcc-uk/catalog/1128711/MM10_NonFood_64pp.pdf

I am considering getting it for my living room. Would we be throwing our money away if we were to buy this.

Also it says that it can layed as a free floating floor and the top edges need to be glued together, would that be advisable and can we lay it on top of laminate or do we need to pick up the laminate. My room is not very big, 3.5m wide not sure if this info helps.

Sorry to ask so many questions

 

[WoodYouLike]

The link take for ever to load, so not able to see what you're trying to buy. But the price seems awful law for quality!

And yes, lift up the laminate, install proper underlayment and follow fitting instructions.

 

[pancras]

Hi thanks for the reply.

Sorry about the link but what I found was I just got on with other surfing and it finally did it.

The planks are 13mm thick, they were all the same length and the colour looked nice. Sorry i cannot give you anymore details.

 

[pancras]

I have found a better link with the actual product.
I hope this helps.
http://www.woodiesdiy.com/productdetail.aspx?pid=4175&loc=P&catid=8.4

 

[WoodYouLike]

That link worked - but the info doesn't tell you really anything at all in my opinion.
Don't know the product itself, so cannot really advice if you are throwing away money when you buy it.

 

[mattysupra]

a garden center selling solid wood flooring? I wonder where and how they store it??

 

[neilos69]

while it is a fair price you get what you pay for.
you can lay as a floating floor but make sure your subfloor is dry and level.
the top will only be as good as below.
if glueing ensure ou use plenty - run along long edge and short .
DO NOT PUT LITTLE DOTS OF GLUE.
ensure you leave a good expansion gap. it is a natural product.
also picked up a tip long time ago to put cork strips in gap to keep the shape of the floor.
also try a clamp set to pull boards together after glue. straps.
also dont put ends of boards together under 300mm. stagger the boards to cross like you would a brick wall.

 

[mattysupra]

how come you say to make sure there is expansion but then you say to fill it with cork?

Also you say fit like a brick wall?


is this normal way to fit a solid then?

 

[WoodYouLike]

also picked up a tip long time ago to put cork strips in gap to keep the shape of the floor.

also dont put ends of boards together under 300mm. stagger the boards to cross like you would a brick wall.

That tip long time ago must be when the only floor installed were herringbone floors where a cork strip was used as DIVIDER between pattern and border.

DO NOT FILL YOUR EXPANSION GAPS WITH ANYTHING

(that's one pound please, promised myself I would start asking for £1.00 each time I have to SHOUT this)
Gaps! They are there for a very good reason!

And indeed stagger your boards, but not as a brick pattern: stagger randomly to enhance the stability of your floor.

 

[neilos69]

Have to disagree about the not filling the expansion gap. Looked into this and cork compresses by 50 per cent and holds it's shape. The staggering I meant to have a minimum 300mm from the short ends not to encroach below this. Would appreciate your thoughts on expansion and contraction with floors secret nailed.
Ps keep the $1.

 

[mattysupra]

so with the cork. If the floor needs 10mm expansion and you put cork in the gap then you really have 5mm expansion left?

So would you be leaving 15mm (if the floor needs 10mm) expansion to start with?

what happens when you need more expansion gap? what would you cover the expansion gap with?

 

[WoodYouLike]

I still fail to understand why the old method of using a cork strip divider BETWEEN pattern and block-border in a design parquet floor, suddenly finds the cork strip in the expansion gap between floor and wall when modern wooden floorboards came about - it is absolutely rubbish and filling your expansion gap of a wooden floor of floorboards is asking for trouble, waste of materials and money. LEAVE IT EMPTY
(That'll be £2 now_

As for expansion and shrinkage with the secret nailing method: it does not matter which installation method you use, there are rules of thumbs when calculating your expansion gap. It has more to do with what type of floor (solid or wood-engineered) and what type of wood. Beech for instance needs 7mm per meter width of the room.
Solid Floors - what to note
Wood works, no matter how you install it.