On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 16:46:56 -0000, "RichardS" noone@invalid wrote:

Why is nothing quite as straightforward as it ought to be....!

Just started ripping everything out of one of our rooms to lay an oak strip
floor. Now, I was dismayed to find a while ago that this room is not
boarded as others are, but instead has a floor of 18mm ply that runs under
the walls and into the bathroom on one side and the hallway on the other.
My plan had to been to hire a door trimming saw (an earlier thread
conclusion) and trim next to the walls so that I could remove the boards for
this room only without having to rebuild the partitions.

However, it now looks like this would be an awful lot bigger job than first
anticipated and for awkward spots like under the door frames ply won't give
into brute force of hammer & finest abuse-grade chisel as chipboard would
have done.

So, I'm considering just secret nailing the new floor on top of the old
one - it's pretty level, being constructed in the main from 8x4 sheets.

Gut instinct tells me that this could be a bad move if I _ever_ need to get
under the floor to rewire or sort out a heating leak, but what do others
reckon?

(I suppose I could fabricate a conventient access hatch for the area
surrounding the radiator...)

I had the same issue exactly on the upstairs landing and decided not
to muck around with trying to remove chipboard adjacent to various
walls.

My solution was to cut access ports in strategic places in the
chipboard with the Routabout set up.

Then in areas above them (two boards width), I ripped short sections
of tongue and have laid and fitted the boards with screws, finally
using a plug cutter and oak plugs. Not noticable at all unless I
look hard. The boards are random length so it's easy to get away
with this.




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