I am working on a 1930s house, and have replaced some of the floorboards
in the bedroom. Sadly they are narrower than the existing ones so I
have gaps between. Bearing in mind that, sooner or later, they will
have to be removed (it might be me!) to gain access to wiring and water
pipes any ideas as to what to plug the gap with. Or, as the room will
be carpeted, shall I just get a paper underlay put down?
TIA

On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 17:08:58 +0100, Broadback
wrote:

I am working on a 1930s house, and have replaced some of the floorboards
in the bedroom. Sadly they are narrower than the existing ones so I
have gaps between. Bearing in mind that, sooner or later, they will
have to be removed (it might be me!) to gain access to wiring and water
pipes any ideas as to what to plug the gap with. Or, as the room will
be carpeted, shall I just get a paper underlay put down?
TIA

I fill these type of gaps with chipboard, that can be cut to size
shape.

The guy that had my house before me cut out loads of small bits of
board, and I had a right pile of bit and bobs, now is one rather weid
shaped bit of chipboard screwed down. With carpet over the top, you
have no idea its there.

Rick

"Broadback" wrote in message
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I am working on a 1930s house, and have replaced some of the floorboards
in the bedroom. Sadly they are narrower than the existing ones so I
have gaps between. Bearing in mind that, sooner or later, they will
have to be removed (it might be me!) to gain access to wiring and water
pipes any ideas as to what to plug the gap with. Or, as the room will
be carpeted, shall I just get a paper underlay put down?
TIA

Not what you want to hear, but if you had gone along to a local timber
merchant
or timber mill and bought over-sized metric floorboards, they might have
put them through a thicknesser/planer for you to get the exact size you
needed.
I found an old boy at a local builders' merchant with a thicknesser and he
did a few planks for free.

I am assuming you bought metric boards in the next width down from the
required
imperial size, and I expect they're about a millimetre too thick too?

Andy.