Is it possible to get 18mm x 85mm floorboards?

[Adam1991]

I’ve recently plumbed in a new rad upstairs and damaged a few floorboards getting to the pipes.

I need to replace them but i’ve measured and they’re 18mm thick 85mm wide, i can’t seem to find anything smaller than 119mm.

any help would be greatly appreciated

Have a look below to see what i’m talking about

 

[Adam1991]

Floorboard size

 

[foxhole]

Looks closer to cladding dimensions, you could always replace the entire section with 18mm floor panel [chipboard]. Or cut back a larger section and replace with a wider board.

 

[Adam1991]

Looks closer to cladding dimensions, you could always replace the entire section with 18mm floor panel [chipboard]. Or cut back a larger section and replace with a wider board.

yeah i was thinking of cutting back a larger section and putting a wider board in, god knows wheres these tiny boards came from

 

[StephenStephen]

I'd be looking to find a local timber supplier for 18mm thick timber - it doesn't need to call itself floorboard!

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Get the right thickness and rip down to the correct width with a portable circular saw and clean up the edge with a sharp jack plane. It isn't that difficult

 

[oldbutnotdead]

Think I've got a length of that in the loft somewhere from back in the 80s.
Decent timber merchant (not DIY sheds) will sell you PSE and rip and plane it down to the right dimensions for you. A really good timber merchant will tongue and groove it for you (but at a steep price- the rip & plane are usually free). A cheap router and some patience and you can T & G it yourself (done it several times to link old floorboards to moderns of the same thickness but different tongue and groove dimensions)

 

[Adam1991]

I'd be looking to find a local timber supplier for 18mm thick timber - it doesn't need to call itself floorboard!

I'll see what i can find cheers

 

[Adam1991]

Get the right thickness and rip down to the correct width with a portable circular saw and clean up the edge with a sharp jack plane. It isn't that difficult

Yeah i did think that as my next option, i just thought if i could buy it ready done its easier isn't it

 

[Deleted member 174758]

Yes, but I'm a chippie and so i sort of expect to have to do this sort of thing all the time. 85mm finished isn't really a standard width for flooring - anything that size would have been machined from 4in (102mm) sawn stock, so allowing for kilning shrinkage and machining loss the nearest you'd get would likely be 18 x 90mm finished, or more likely something like 18 x 112mm (ex-5in wide).

If you live in a semi rural area like I do, there are no such things as DIY sheds (my nearest is about 15 miles these days) but we have two fairly local timber yards with their own joiners shops attached who will gladly supply and saw down materials for you at minimal extra cost. Some joiners shops are also willing to cut down materials for "walk ins" for a small fee - used to do it myself when I ran a shop, providing the timber was clean (recycled stuff is generally risky to saw - too many hidden nails and screws) and we weren't pulled-out on jobs. That is a service few builders merchants offer these days. Makes it worthwhile searching out these places for the future