Hi,
I'm renovating the basement. Concrete slab.
I've installed a Nivell framing system. Great stuff!
On top of this, I have 22mm chipboard followed by 30mm foam with grooves for underfloor heating pipes. Over this, I plan to have a carpet. But what can I have between the carpet and the foam? For example, there is 12mm chipboard. Would that be sufficient? Is there a more convenient way? I want it to add as little height as possible, but still be rock-solid, of course.
One more question, if I am to have chipboard on top, on the foam, should I (after gluing them) screw it through the foam and attach it to the chipboards below? Or is it enough if they are glued to each other?
Best regards,
Stefan
I'm renovating the basement. Concrete slab.
I've installed a Nivell framing system. Great stuff!
On top of this, I have 22mm chipboard followed by 30mm foam with grooves for underfloor heating pipes. Over this, I plan to have a carpet. But what can I have between the carpet and the foam? For example, there is 12mm chipboard. Would that be sufficient? Is there a more convenient way? I want it to add as little height as possible, but still be rock-solid, of course.
One more question, if I am to have chipboard on top, on the foam, should I (after gluing them) screw it through the foam and attach it to the chipboards below? Or is it enough if they are glued to each other?
Best regards,
Stefan
There is an even thinner variant. It looks like masonite but is somewhat thicker, about 5 or 6 mm. It is made with a type of "spont" and glued together. I don't know what it's called but we had it in our old house. There it was laid on sparse paneling with vinyl flooring or carpet on top.
Hempularen, you mean floor masonite, right? It's about 6 mm thick and "tongue-and-groove" or should I call it rebated at the edges so that the boards can be glued overlapping.
You can lay floor masonite completely floating (only glued to itself) with the plastic mat glued on. It stays stable enough from the weight of the masonite + mat.
However, it isn't extremely strong. In a room in our house where there was floor masonite + plastic mat on top of 20 mm foam, someone managed to stamp a hole in the floor - well, it wasn't a hole in the plastic mat but a clear dent where the masonite underneath had broken and pressed down into the substrate. But it was poor foam, no more supportive than the cheapest packaging styrofoam...
You can lay floor masonite completely floating (only glued to itself) with the plastic mat glued on. It stays stable enough from the weight of the masonite + mat.
However, it isn't extremely strong. In a room in our house where there was floor masonite + plastic mat on top of 20 mm foam, someone managed to stamp a hole in the floor - well, it wasn't a hole in the plastic mat but a clear dent where the masonite underneath had broken and pressed down into the substrate. But it was poor foam, no more supportive than the cheapest packaging styrofoam...