Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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inNeedofHelp wrote:
We are planning replacing our floorboarded kitchen floor with
chipboard. The boards are in bad nick with being cut over the years
and lifted for electrics and heating.

I'd advise against this. I've seen too many chipboard kitchen floors
that have to be replaced through water spillage and subsequent
swelling.

I'd fix the existing floorboards. It's unlikely they are all scrap.
You might find decent secondhand ones at a reclaim yard that are
exactly the same size - or plane down new ones to fit.

Screw all replacements rather than nailing. Then - as is inevitable -
they'll be easy to lift when required. Unlike T&G chipboard which is
near impossible.

If he's tiling the floor afterwards then access to under the floor will be
difficult anyway. I've often wondered what people do about that....

David