Wooden flooring - which underlay?
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pickup01
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Wooden flooring - which underlay?

by pickup01 » Wed Mar 28, 2007 2:42 pm

I'm about to put down a solid wood tongue&groove floor over existing quarry tiles and wonder what type of underlay I should use. The room is on the ground floor of the house. Can you advise?

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by thedoctor » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:27 pm

Double up on a laminate underlay

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by T E Partington » Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:21 pm

you should buy laminate underlay with a built in damp proof membrane, its silver foil on the reverse side, when you lay the underlay turn it up the wall a few inches and cover it with your skirting board, any moisture will expand the timber and bubble the floor, you should also consider storing the timber in your house for a few weeks to aclimatise

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by jezebelle » Tue Apr 24, 2007 8:13 am

What is laminate underlay?
Would'mt this underlay raise the floor quite a bit?

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