Floorboards

Discussion in 'Renovation & Home Improvement' started by Hetty, 6th Sep, 2019.

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  1. Hetty

    Hetty Well-Known Member

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    I hate them. I want tiles.

    What if a house ticks all the boxes except it has floorboards? How expensive is it to tile? Okay total noob now, what needs to be underneath them to tile? What’s usually underneath them?
     
  2. wylie

    wylie Moderator Staff Member

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    Is the house on stumps or on a slab. If on stumps, I'd think any tiling over the top would need to have compressed AC sheet screwed down to keep the floor rigid (similar to tiling a bathroom in a timber floored house).

    That would mean skirts and trims coming off and put back on afterwards.
     
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    Scott No Mates Well-Known Member

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    Depends on the floor, floating floors will have particle board or slab underneath, strip floors may have concrete, battens, joists or particle board.

    Tiles should be laid over concrete or compressed fibre cement sheet (not Asbestos Cement (AC) sheet).
     
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  4. Hetty

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    House is on a slab
     
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    Goldies or VB? :confused:
     
  6. Hetty

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    Such a dad joke
     
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    I didn’t realize it wasn’t called AC sheet these days but I still call it that (but no asbestos these days).

    I’m showing my age. :D
     

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