Screw and glue newly purchased battens

[micsor]

Hi, I'm planning to screw the 21x70 battens to my 22mm chipboard floor. I bought the wood yesterday at Bauhaus drive-thru and brought it indoors right away. The question now is whether I can install it this weekend or if it should be left to dry for a week?

The battens are to be installed to create a channel for underfloor heating pipes (water-based) on an upstairs wooden joist floor. It's about 17 degrees Celsius and a mere 20% humidity upstairs. The area is approximately 20m2.

Since it seems the kids are down with a fever, I'm itching to get some construction work done this weekend.

Grateful for tips

/mikael

 

[pbengtsson]

It's just about laying it in, mainly parquet that you want to leave in for a while. 21x70 works, I assume you're going to use 20mm pipe and then I think 21x120 is perfect, just lay 15cm cc, then in with plates and pipe. But that's just a detail, go ahead.

Do not screw in the middle but one screw on each side so the boards do not cup.

 

[micsor]

Great! Then I'll continue! ...already bought 21x70, so I'll keep going with that

Thanks