I'm renovating a room in my house which has a concrete floor - I've
layed 50mm battens at 600 centres with Kingspan between, and plan to
lay laminate over that. It's been suggested to me that I should lay
chipboard first, and the laminate won't be sufficiently supported by
the battens - that seems like overkill to me, but I'm ready to be
persuaded - any opinions/experience?

Thanks,

R.

"Reuben_D" wrote in message
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I'm renovating a room in my house which has a concrete floor - I've
layed 50mm battens at 600 centres with Kingspan between, and plan to
lay laminate over that. It's been suggested to me that I should lay
chipboard first, and the laminate won't be sufficiently supported by
the battens - that seems like overkill to me, but I'm ready to be
persuaded - any opinions/experience?


Presuming you are using the standard type laminate (7mm thick or so). Your
design will not give the laminate enough support and it will bounce and
crack like crazy. It needs full support underneath.

HTH

John

"Reuben_D" wrote in message
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I'm renovating a room in my house which has a concrete floor - I've
layed 50mm battens at 600 centres with Kingspan between, and plan to
lay laminate over that. It's been suggested to me that I should lay
chipboard first, and the laminate won't be sufficiently supported by
the battens - that seems like overkill to me, but I'm ready to be
persuaded - any opinions/experience?

Thanks,

R.

Try it, put a piece of laminate on a couple of bits of wood two feet apart
and walk, jump, dance on it.
BTW, it will break if its anything like the laminate flooring I have seen.
The only possible saving would be if the Kingspan supports the floor rather
than the battens which would require careful sizing of the battens and a
level subfloor (so no battens needed, catch 22).

With 2 feet between centres I am not sure I would trust 18 mm flooring to
provide a solid floor.

Reuben_D wrote:
I'm renovating a room in my house which has a concrete floor - I've
layed 50mm battens at 600 centres with Kingspan between, and plan to
lay laminate over that. It's been suggested to me that I should lay
chipboard first, and the laminate won't be sufficiently supported by
the battens - that seems like overkill to me, but I'm ready to be
persuaded - any opinions/experience?

No chance, it will crack the first time its walked on..


--
Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk

"The Medway Handyman" wrote in message
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Reuben_D wrote:
I'm renovating a room in my house which has a concrete floor - I've
layed 50mm battens at 600 centres with Kingspan between, and plan to
lay laminate over that. It's been suggested to me that I should lay
chipboard first, and the laminate won't be sufficiently supported by
the battens - that seems like overkill to me, but I'm ready to be
persuaded - any opinions/experience?

No chance, it will crack the first time its walked on..

It depends on how rigid the Kingspan is.

On Wed, 7 May 2008 01:16:26 -0700 (PDT), Reuben_D
wrote:

I'm renovating a room in my house which has a concrete floor - I've
layed 50mm battens at 600 centres with Kingspan between, and plan to
lay laminate over that. It's been suggested to me that I should lay
chipboard first, and the laminate won't be sufficiently supported by
the battens - that seems like overkill to me, but I'm ready to be
persuaded - any opinions/experience?

Thanks,

R.
laminate is not a flooring its a flooring finish


hth