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Patching a wooden floor

  • 05-06-2019 4:01pm
    #1
    54and56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,742 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,

    I'm having some new cupboards installed and when the old corner cupboard was removed it revealed a hole in the floor.

    Solid limed oak floorboards were installed years ago but it must have been after the corner cupboard was installed as the limed oak floorboards were fitted up to and around the corner cupboard not under it.

    Here's a picture of the hole after the skeleton of a new cupboard has been installed.

    IMG201906051331131559749797.jpg

    The interior of the cupboard will not be visible once it is in use so I just need a practical solution which will fill in the hole and make it level with and preferably somewhat visually similar to the installed floor around it.

    I'm thinking that I should get or make up some sort of screed to fill in most of the void and then install some tongue and groove laminated wood flooring similar in style/colour to the limed oak and the job would be Oxo.

    Any thoughts? Good idea / bad idea? Any better ideas?


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  • #2
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,370 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    Stick down some membrane... some osb or wbp and forget about it.

    I'd you want use a thinner profile wood and laminate over it but wbp would be what i would do if it's hidden.


  • #3
    54and56
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,742 ✭✭✭54and56


    GreeBo wrote: »
    Stick down some membrane... some osb or wbp and forget about it.

    I'd you want use a thinner profile wood and laminate over it but wbp would be what i would do if it's hidden.

    Thanks GreeBo, that's a very pragmatic solution. I could get a sheet of WBP and pretty much cut and shape it to size. It wouldn't have to be a perfect fit or anything, just good enough to take the real bad look off it and make the space functional for storing and moving things in and out of.

    What membrane would you suggest? Would some insulation type foam board on the bottom and WBP on top do the trick?


  • #4
    GreeBo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,370 ✭✭✭✭GreeBo


    There is some sort of vapour barrier/retarder under the new floor, so I would get somes standard plastic barrier, tape it to the existing one as best you can (or mastic it to the floor under the existing and tape/mastic them together) and then forget about it.

    Its possibly over kill since the concrete has been exposed like that for years without issue, but since you are already in there and have it up its no harm.


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