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Hi guys,

I am due to tile my kitchen floor and bathroom floor. I was going to use 12mm aquapanel screwed to the timber floor boards as suggested in the sticky above. Now a lot of the timber boards are rotten away. I am not sure if its wet rot or dry rot, am trying to upload a photo but i am having a problem with the web site.

1. Anyway, any kind of timber you recommend to use for replacing the floor boards?

2. Also, part of the kitchen has an old concrete hearth whereby the existing floorboards join up to it. Now the floors boards are not level with the hearth , Can use something like fibreboard to level it up? To make it worse the hearth is not even level, slightly lumpy

3. I understand that I would screw aquapanel to the new floorboards as recommended ion the sticky, but what about the hearth, would I drill holes in the concrete and just use plugs and screws


Cheers

If the exisiting floorboards are rotten then why not rip up all the floorboards and use WBP ply, either 12mm or 25mm, depending on what tiles you are fitting, more info here-

http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/tilin ... floors.htm

Make sure you treat the joists first using some good timber treatment, such as cuprinol 5 star wood treatment.

To level up the hearth you can use WBP plywood as well, you can glue it down with grab adhesive and screw it as well using wall plugs and screws

http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/F&F_WALL_PLUGS.htm

As above

If the ply is slightly higher than the hearth.........ply up to it........then either use a self level compound on the hearth.........or rapid floor cement

Thanks guys.

UHM, not all the boards are rotten and the joists 300 apart. I notice that the guide says to screw down @ 150 centers, would a span of 300 be ok for the width or should I use noggins?

Can't seem to attach a picture, I don't see the attachment button? Any ideas

NewbieJohn wrote: Can't seem to attach a picture, I don't see the attachment button? Any ideas

Use preview before you post. You can use the edit button to add attachments after you have posted too.

Yeah its telling me that I need to load a pict that 640 x 600 pixels or so. I reduced the picture size but still get an error sayng pict is too large, will have a play about

Try these-

how-to-resize-pictures-easily-t9127.html

how-to-attach-pictures-to-posts-t9117.html

What tiles are you using for the floor?

great tool! Will put a new post in the damp sections about my water under the floor.


As for the tiles, I was just going to buy standard titles from B&Q so I suppose its ceramic or porcelain tiles

NewbieJohn wrote:great tool! Will put a new post in the damp sections about my water under the floor.


As for the tiles, I was just going to buy standard titles from B&Q so I suppose its ceramic or porcelain tiles

If you are using ceramic or porcelain then the floor does not need to be as sturdy as it does with natural stone products