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  • All this carpet luxury talk has pushed us over the edge and decide to get them put into our bedrooms. It's a 1930s semi with the original floorboard. Literally sounds like elephants above you when someone is walking upstairs.

    Will be investing in decent underlay which will hopefully reduce that, but am wondering what are the benefits of screwing down some 3mm hardboard before putting down the underlay? The floor is reasonably flat, and not too draughty. Waste of time and money?

  • It's pretty normal practice. Usually stapled down, it also saves the carpet blackening from air blowing through the gaps in the boards. I don't lift a lot of carpets but pretty much all of the ones I have recently have had this under the underlay.

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