Good morning everyone,
I have a question I was hoping someone could help with.
We have recently had to have a few bits of our existing chipboard T&G flooring taken up from our suspended floor for some rewiring and plumbing work, and given the age, state and squeakiness of it, are currently looking to replace it all with cement based floorboards (e.g. NoMorePly 18mm TG4 Tile Backer Floor Board) to feel more solid and work better with the underfloor heating.
We can glue the T&Gs but can't glue the boards down to the actual joists (which is what the manufacturer recommends), so was wondering if anyone has used this with just screws anchoring it to the joists, and whether that would be a suitable approach?
Also open to any other advice and suggestions. We basically just want a warm, UFH friendly, squeak-free floor.
A bit more information:
The room in the house we are looking at is on the ground floor and has a pug based underfloor heating system fitted that was fitted around 10 years ago, with a plastic membrane running over the top of the joists and under the UFH pipes and screed (basically this system https://www.wundagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/F05-Wunda-Pug-Screed-fact-sheet-30-4-2018.pdf).
The joists are all very level and straight and don't have more than a 2mm height variation across the entire 6m room - They also only have a very short spans between sleeper walls of only about 1m with joist centres of <400mm.
I have a question I was hoping someone could help with.
We have recently had to have a few bits of our existing chipboard T&G flooring taken up from our suspended floor for some rewiring and plumbing work, and given the age, state and squeakiness of it, are currently looking to replace it all with cement based floorboards (e.g. NoMorePly 18mm TG4 Tile Backer Floor Board) to feel more solid and work better with the underfloor heating.
We can glue the T&Gs but can't glue the boards down to the actual joists (which is what the manufacturer recommends), so was wondering if anyone has used this with just screws anchoring it to the joists, and whether that would be a suitable approach?
Also open to any other advice and suggestions. We basically just want a warm, UFH friendly, squeak-free floor.
A bit more information:
The room in the house we are looking at is on the ground floor and has a pug based underfloor heating system fitted that was fitted around 10 years ago, with a plastic membrane running over the top of the joists and under the UFH pipes and screed (basically this system https://www.wundagroup.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/F05-Wunda-Pug-Screed-fact-sheet-30-4-2018.pdf).
The joists are all very level and straight and don't have more than a 2mm height variation across the entire 6m room - They also only have a very short spans between sleeper walls of only about 1m with joist centres of <400mm.
