On Nov 3, 9:53*pm, JimK wrote:
On 3 Nov, 20:27, Bill wrote:





I've been wondering about having an oak floor through the d/room, hall
and l/room.

The problems I can see a

* Access to a burst pipe would surely be a nightmare. I have seen
individual planks replaced by cutting the original out with a circular
saw but knowing my luck with houses, there probably would be leaking
pipe at some point.

* Some of the floorboards have warped because of central heating
pipes. Surely this might cause a new floor to lift as well?

Would it be worth changing all the floorboards for new ones (some of
the existing ones are pretty bad).

Also, could I avoid the warping problem?

Thanks.

Well depends how many pipes you have running under it and what routes
they take... praps you could re route some (in plastic) easily enough
aiming to group them all in one or two areas that you would have to be
prepared to gamble on taking up if worst happens.

you could buy a little extra floor and keep it to repair the damage
caused by lifting the section to fix a leak?

warping - spose depends on moisture content of new floor vs humidityof
subfloor area vs humidity of room - to minimise you should let the new
stuff acclimatise before laying and tbh expect it to move a bit whilst
it acclimatises and also with changing seasons - part of the beauty
IMHO.

Where CH pipes are you could maybe fit some sort of metal heat shield/
spreader plates to spread the heat out away from just above the pipes
- tho if they are *that* hot esp under your ground floor you maybe
could insulate them anyway?

cheers
JimK- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks Jim. Sounds good advice.