160mm x 15mm thick floorboards

PhilOssophy

I am trying to replace some floor boards before re-carpeting a room. I can't find any floor boards of this dimensions, does anybody know where I could get them?

antiskeptic

PhilOssophy wrote: »

I am trying to replace some floor boards before re-carpeting a room. I can't find any floor boards of this dimensions, does anybody know where I could get them?

Never seen floor boards that thin. And finding wideplank is difficult and expensive (x2 the price of 4" /m2 in red deal, in my experience).

Given you're recarpeting just use sheet. Alot of stuff will be 18mm but you can probably build up the 15mm thickness using various thicknesses of plywood. Glue the sheets together with some wood glue rolled out then cut to size.

my3cents

Not impossible to take thicker boards mark where the beams area and then router or power plane out the unwanted timber.

I wouldn't want to do that for more than a couple of planks.

cletus

Dou you know anybody with a planer thicknesser

PhilOssophy

antiskeptic wrote: »

Never seen floor boards that thin. And finding wideplank is difficult and expensive (x2 the price of 4" /m2 in red deal, in my experience).

Given you're recarpeting just use sheet. Alot of stuff will be 18mm but you can probably build up the 15mm thickness using various thicknesses of plywood. Glue the sheets together with some wood glue rolled out then cut to size.

Its an old house. I was wondering if I should just buy 15mm plywood and get them cut to be 160mm wide? I presume that would be just as strong? B&Q have 15mm thick so I could just get them cut to the required width. B&Q also have a cutting service which would work I think.

my3cents

I use a lot of plywood and its very strong when you use it in large pieces but in strips its not so strong. I don't think you'd fall through the plywood but it might flex a bit to much.

Have you had a look for old reclaimed floorboards on done deal https://www.donedeal.ie/all?words=reclaimed%20floor%20boards or in salvage yards?

PhilOssophy

my3cents wrote: »

I use a lot of plywood and its very strong when you use it in large pieces but in strips its not so strong. I don't think you'd fall through the plywood but it might flex a bit to much.

Have you had a look for old reclaimed floorboards on done deal https://www.donedeal.ie/all?words=reclaimed%20floor%20boards or in salvage yards?

Didn't want to do that because I didn't want to risk bringing woodworm into the house.

Yeah my big fear regarding plywood strips was would they flex too much.

my3cents

PhilOssophy wrote: »

Didn't want to do that because I didn't want to risk bringing woodworm into the house.

Yeah my big fear regarding plywood strips was would they flex too much.

Clear Protim 265 and leave the boards outside for a week for the smell to go away. That will kill anything in the wood. There are also lots of less smellly alternative preservative/wood worm killers.

Unless you can see past woodworm activity its very unlikely you will get any in clean looking boards.

PhilOssophy

Could I get a couple of 44 x 175mm timber joists and get them cut to size? Is there any issue with that that I'm not thinking of?

I'm only replacing 4-5 sections up to 1.5-2m long.

my3cents

You need someone with a thickness planer to get a decent finish. Cutting timber down to size isn't always as accurate as you'd expect, unless you throw away a lot of timber.

Ripping down 175mm will take some decent size blade unless you are removing the guards and cutting from each side or its done on a bandsaw. Then you'll probably need the wood put through a thickness planer.

Don't forget anything you bring into the house will be much wetter than the timber already there so keep it in the same room for at least 2 weeks before laying so you don't have any gaps. Possibly cut the boards a tad wider to allow for shrinkage.