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I’m in the throes of renovating an old house at the moment and dealing with replacing rotting sections of floor has proved a little fiddly due to this. The slig
by aidos 7y ago
I’m in the throes of renovating an old house at the moment and dealing with replacing rotting sections of floor has proved a little fiddly due to this. The slightly different joist heights aren’t too bad - you just pack them out before strapping to the existing joists. Worse has been the existing chipboard floor, which is 20mm and I can only buy 18mm or 22mm. You can hack your way around it, but that one subtle difference adds quite a bit of time to the job - something I don think have much spare of at the moment!
- jacquesm 7y agoYou actually can get 20mm plywood, it will be a bit more expensive and likely much harder to find. Try a cabinet maker and ask if they can order it for you, cabinet makers have access to a vastly superior source of materials compared to your normal building store. Another option is that they route some grooves in thicker plywood at the spot of the joists (I guess that would qualify as a hack).
- aidos 7y agoThanks for the tip. It’s irrelevant now because the flooring people have just walked out saying they won’t lay on to the chipboard anyway. Need to run a thin layer of ply over the whole thing. Live and learn I guess!