How To Lay Tongue And Groove Chipboard Flooring

Tongue and groove chipboard is made to fit tightly together to form a solid floor base.

How to lay tongue and groove chipboard flooring.

Chipboard is a form of particleboard which means it s pieces of wood and other materials that are pressed together with glue to form the boards. Chipboard flooring panels are joined together using a tongue and groove system. The tongue and groove edges make for a strong bond between the boards. Your sub floor joists should be at 400mm centres meaning the edge of the boards always falls on a joist too.

It s often used as an underlayment for wood tile and sheet flooring. Standard size sheets are 2400mm x 600mm and available in two thicknesses 18mm and 22mm. Tighten joins in chipboard flooring. 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.

To protect the edge of your board put a piece of scrap timber in front of it and swing the hammer into that. How to lay a t g chipboard floor. To get your join really tight it helps to knock the boards into place with a sledgehammer. Chipboard flooring with tongue and groove joints is commonly available for flooring applications.

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. 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. 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.