How To Lay Tongue And Groove Chipboard Flooring

How to lay a t g chipboard floor.

How to lay tongue and groove chipboard flooring.

Hello folks i was wondering if i could get some tips from you all for cutting up tongue and groove chipboard flooring because today when the joiner took up a section off the floor there was pipes very very close to the tops of the joists and right underneath the flooring. Tighten joins in chipboard flooring. Chipboard flooring with tongue and groove joints is commonly available for flooring applications. Your sub floor joists should be at 400mm centres meaning the edge of the boards always falls on a joist too.

Tongue and groove chipboard is a type of particle board made up of sawdust and resin. It s often used as an underlayment for wood tile and sheet flooring. It is used like plywood as a subfloor beneath tile hardwood and laminate. Once this has been done add a bead of adhesive to the tongue and groove joint on top of the screw and push the adjacent panels together using the tongue and groove connection.

They are relatively cheap and quick to lay. Continue to lay chipboard flooring across the joists for the rest of the floor ensuring the joints along the 600mm edges are staggered always avoid joining on the same joist wherever possible. Chipboard flooring panels are joined together using a tongue and groove system. To protect the edge of your board put a piece of scrap timber in front of it and swing the hammer into that.

To get your join really tight it helps to knock the boards into place with a sledgehammer. Then lay a chipboard flooring panel down adding a screw to the tongue at each tongue and groove joint to secure it to the joist below. The tongue and groove edges make for a strong bond between the boards.