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I’ve literally just done this. Reclaimed junckers beech that was used for a squash court.
I pulled up the fucked pine boards that were way past saving. I snuck them under the skirting and it worked fine. Had to bridge some gaps with scraps of ply to give the boards support in a few places.
There were so many cables and pipes under the pine boards that I’m glad I replaced them rather than laying on top - feel like it would have been easy to damage something unseen if I’d just laid them on top. I’m also glad to have kept the same floor level throughout. Another minor thing is that you have to snip all the nails off if it’s going to sit on top of something, rather than just making sure the nails don’t sit on any joists.Are you sure they run under walls through to other rooms? I though I had this but it wasn’t the case. See if you can get a couple boards up to have a look.
Attached are before and after photos, shit show of cables and pipes, example of ply support between joists, and the finished product.
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Nef
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Ah thanks, that was stupid of me for not putting two and two together as I knew you'd done that.
Your floorboards are a lot better condition than ours so I think we'll do that. I'll read through your posts again but is there anything that you'd do differently etc?
We'll probably have the skirting off anyway and it's just a small rectangular room so fewer corners so it should be a bit simpler.
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Impressive result!
rj
russmeyer
I'm thinking of fitting some reclaimed Junckers flooring. It looks like we have two options either
Taking up the original floorboards and lay it directly onto the joists. The current floorboards are broken in a lot of places, cut up and very squeaky from plumbers and electricians. They may run under a wall though to the next room which might make it harder than just lifting the boards to get the flooring up.
Put another layer of ply wood? on the existing boards then lay on top of that. This would probably mean taking 20mm off the bottom of the door, which I think would mean a new door, because it would cut into the mortise and tenon at the bottom. We'd also have a 20mm step down to the carpet at the door which might be annoying.