Strucutral floorboards timber - Advice please

[Bobu]

Hello,

I have some builders currently in doing some work and during the course of the work they found some dry rot on and under some of the floorboards.

They treated and replaced these for me but they have since put down large chipboard tongue and groove type sheets as the final floor boards (to be later covered by carpet). Previously there were timber boards and I was expecting them to replace them like for like.

I'm not really happy about as it differs from my expectations and have since dropped them an email, but I wanted to do some research in the meantime but have been unable to so far figure out what types of timber are suitable as structural floors boards or what the official term I should search for should be?

Everytime I say "floorboards" I'm getting results for laminated or nicely finished wood, I'm just after structural type floorboards.

Is it something like "pine stripboards" I should be searching for? Is pine even a suitable wood for this type of a job? Are there any other suitable woods out there?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, this is all pretty new for me!

Cheers

 

[Belboz]

Try 'planed tongue and groove flooring' or similar

 

[Bobu]

Thanks, went to a local DIY shop and they appeared to have some that matched the description. Not hugely expensive either and I found what the builders used in the same store so I can see the price differences. Basically they went for a much cheaper option, but hopefully they will come back to say they can change them as my expectations were different.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

If they fitted chipboard then their price should reflect that. If you want proper boards they will charge extra. They will probably want to charge you for the chipboard anyway seeing as it will be scrap. And also the labour to rip it up. And the labour to fit new boards. Not sure this will be as straight forward as you imagine.