Base floor advice please. WW3 in our house!
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Base floor advice please. WW3 in our house!
Ok....basic situation: house refurb going on (slowly and for ages). Got a joiner in the week before Xmas to lay chipboard flooring in the kitchen, we had no floor or plasterboard on walls or ceiling at that point, so were greatful to anyone to come out at shortish notice to help.
Kitchen floor is pretty rough though. 18mm green chipboard floor 8'x2' sheets but joiner has cut them in such a way we have joins everywhere. I dont think there are any full lengths on the floor at all. I have no idea why he did this, I'm assuming it was for ease of handling. One join is right in front of the cooker and another is in front of the sink, 2 of the most used areas.
Some of the sheets have broken corners and there are large nail holes everywhere. His nail gun must have been on the most powerful setting as some of the nails are really sunk in leaving a broken edge around them. I usually walk about in bare feet and I'm positive I can feel movement (flexing) in some areas.
We had originally wanted to lay vinyl but we can't now as the floor isn't good enough. We then thought we'd lay tiles but dont know whether to pull up the floor and lay 25mm ply or whether to leave the crap floor underneath and put ply on top. I was going to get tile backer boards but I dont know if the floor is even ok for them?
We're all getting stressed now as this refurb is taking so long and the floor is causing so many arguments and it's holding everything up.
I dont know what to do for the best and my OH hates DIY with a vengeance and more or less tells me 'it's up to me', but he's made it clear he thinks it's a waste of money if I rip up the floor that we have paid to get laid down iyswim. He's right, it would be a waste, but the floor is crap.
I'm really fed up as we've shelled out almost £2.5k on labour costs alone for the joiner, plumber and electrician and my house still looks like a bomb site and their work has been not very good.
If I could get 1 good tradesman in to sort everything I would be such a happy bunny but good and tradesmen dont seem to go together around these parts.
What would be the best thing to do about the kitchen floor please? I know this is more an 'opinion' question than anything else but I just dont know what to do about it and I'm reaching the end of my tether now.
(Btw, please dont suggest getting the joiner back, he was a friend of a friend and for various personal reasons getting him to re-lay the floor isn't an option.)
Kitchen floor is pretty rough though. 18mm green chipboard floor 8'x2' sheets but joiner has cut them in such a way we have joins everywhere. I dont think there are any full lengths on the floor at all. I have no idea why he did this, I'm assuming it was for ease of handling. One join is right in front of the cooker and another is in front of the sink, 2 of the most used areas.
Some of the sheets have broken corners and there are large nail holes everywhere. His nail gun must have been on the most powerful setting as some of the nails are really sunk in leaving a broken edge around them. I usually walk about in bare feet and I'm positive I can feel movement (flexing) in some areas.
We had originally wanted to lay vinyl but we can't now as the floor isn't good enough. We then thought we'd lay tiles but dont know whether to pull up the floor and lay 25mm ply or whether to leave the crap floor underneath and put ply on top. I was going to get tile backer boards but I dont know if the floor is even ok for them?
We're all getting stressed now as this refurb is taking so long and the floor is causing so many arguments and it's holding everything up.
I dont know what to do for the best and my OH hates DIY with a vengeance and more or less tells me 'it's up to me', but he's made it clear he thinks it's a waste of money if I rip up the floor that we have paid to get laid down iyswim. He's right, it would be a waste, but the floor is crap.
I'm really fed up as we've shelled out almost £2.5k on labour costs alone for the joiner, plumber and electrician and my house still looks like a bomb site and their work has been not very good.
If I could get 1 good tradesman in to sort everything I would be such a happy bunny but good and tradesmen dont seem to go together around these parts.
What would be the best thing to do about the kitchen floor please? I know this is more an 'opinion' question than anything else but I just dont know what to do about it and I'm reaching the end of my tether now.
(Btw, please dont suggest getting the joiner back, he was a friend of a friend and for various personal reasons getting him to re-lay the floor isn't an option.)