Overboarding upstairs floor

[TheKeymeister]

The upstairs floor on my 70s semi is well knackered, and as we're doing a full job on the house we decided to do something about it. Previous owners have ruined a fair few boards when carrying out wiring bodges and installing crap plumbing (all dealt with now...)

Someone from the other halfs family ripped up all the crap boards and binned them, saying we'd be better off overboarding the floor as the rest of the boards creak badly, he suggested chipboard but from reading on here and other places thats not a good idea and I'd probably be better off with ply

Any thoughts on this, or any suggestions as to what thickness I need?

 

[HERTS P&D]

Take up all floor boards and replace, or use ply.

It would be best to re-wire while you are doing this, also mark all pipes and cables- take loads of pictures with dimensions for future reference.

Andy

 

[TheKeymeister]

House has been completely re-wired, re-plumbed, the lot... Good shout on keeping records of it all though.

Don't really want to go down the route of ripping the old floor up and relaying with boards, for the cost and the time - trying to get the house done for Christmas.

Is fixing ply sheets over the existing a no-no then? There's not too many huge holes it's mainly odd boards missing, the parts where its 2/3 boards missing next to each other I could patch up.

 

[HERTS P&D]

Take up one board and go to your local timber yard and have some new timber machined to the correct thickness, Then fit new boards where needed, screw down the floor boards drilling pilot holes first so that they don't split.

MIND THE PIPES!

Andy