How To Join Chipboard Flooring

One thing we got wrong when building the barn 5yrs ago was that we didnt glue the chipboard flooring on the first floor.

How to join chipboard flooring.

How to lay a t g chipboard floor. Chipboard flooring panels are joined together using a tongue and groove system. Chipboard flooring panels are joined together using a tongue and groove system. Tighten joins in chipboard flooring.

The creaking has been bugging me ever since. Chipboard flooring has been designed specifically to be used as flooring meaning that it is easy to lay and has specific features that make laying a chipboard floor quick and easy. Continue to lay chipboard flooring across the joists for the rest of the floor ensuring the joints along the 600mm edges are staggered always avoid joining on the same joist wherever possible. I ll be laying a new chipboard floor over some old joists some of which have been replaced and now it is all insulated.

Standard size sheets are 2400mm x 600mm and available in two thicknesses 18mm and 22mm. The tongue and groove edges make for a strong bond between the boards. These features include tongue and groove connections a finished face that makes laying flooring on top easy and panel sizes that are easy to transport and handle. Your sub floor joists should be at 400mm centres meaning the edge of the boards always falls on a joist too.

This video from bunnings will show you how you can your joins really tight. To get your join really tight it helps to knock the boards into place with a sledgehammer. The joists are not 2 4m spaced to line up with the join. Tongue and groove chipboard is a type of particle board made up of sawdust and resin.

To protect the edge of your board put a piece of scrap timber in front of it and swing the hammer into that. They are relatively cheap and quick to lay.