But if you have tiles on the floor, you must have underfloor heating, right?
Otherwise, the blades of shovels become cold and brittle
Otherwise, the blades of shovels become cold and brittle
Cut to the length = the distance between the floor joists and laid on 1"x1" battens nailed along the underside of the joists.useless said:
And then newspaper, so the sawdust/shavings wouldn't start to run down into the crawl space before the rats had gnawed holes and built nests.
It resulted in wonderfully well-ventilated and drafty floors!
Trying to revive a thread with the last post from 4 years ago. I need your opinions on different types of subfloor panels. Fiber cement is out, too expensive (for an extension on the summer cottage).
Or so I thought!! Byggmax offers fiber cement panels at the same price as oil-hardened wood fiber with almost the same dimensions. They claim the oil-hardened is easy to work with. Compared to fiber cement which might crack during handling?
(Byggmax also sells asphalt board. I have it under the existing house and it has held up without sagging since 1979, but I thought it was out of the game now.)
K-Rauta also has oil-hardened. But the glue seems off-putting: phenol, polymer with formaldehyde. I read somewhere that formaldehyde is okay if the air concentration is kept below the limit. I take that with a pinch of salt.
Bauhaus also offers oil-hardened wood fiber.
According to an earlier post in this thread, Byggmax's fiber cement panel was a good alternative, and it turned out they had stopped selling it. Now they apparently started again.
You notice I'm leaning towards fiber cement. If anyone has grim experiences with Byggmax fiber cement panels, I would appreciate a warning.
Or so I thought!! Byggmax offers fiber cement panels at the same price as oil-hardened wood fiber with almost the same dimensions. They claim the oil-hardened is easy to work with. Compared to fiber cement which might crack during handling?
(Byggmax also sells asphalt board. I have it under the existing house and it has held up without sagging since 1979, but I thought it was out of the game now.)
K-Rauta also has oil-hardened. But the glue seems off-putting: phenol, polymer with formaldehyde. I read somewhere that formaldehyde is okay if the air concentration is kept below the limit. I take that with a pinch of salt.
Bauhaus also offers oil-hardened wood fiber.
According to an earlier post in this thread, Byggmax's fiber cement panel was a good alternative, and it turned out they had stopped selling it. Now they apparently started again.
You notice I'm leaning towards fiber cement. If anyone has grim experiences with Byggmax fiber cement panels, I would appreciate a warning.