Hello everyone!
I initially created the thread under "Flooring" but it might be more appropriate here.
To begin with, I want to say that I'm truly a novice in the area of floor construction. I just have a lot of ideas and don't know if they are feasible in a practical way.
Ok, to the question. We bought a villa from '76 with, I believe, 22mm chipboard flooring. We now want to install a "real" spruce floor for the feel of it. The thing is, the spruce floor is 30mm thick and I didn't want to raise door frames, thresholds, etc., if I were to lay the spruce floor directly on the chipboard flooring, i.e., floating. So it seems like I'll have to tear up the chipboard flooring and lay the spruce flooring the "right" way directly onto the wooden joists. Now to the problem: Are the interior walls also standing on the chipboard flooring? Do I have to tear down the interior walls too if they are on the chipboard flooring? Can you cut out the chipboard flooring while keeping the interior walls if these are on the chipboard flooring?
As I said at the beginning, totally new to this and would like to know the best way to install a 30mm spruce floor in a 70s house with chipboard flooring, do you have any answers or ideas?
I've thought about so-called renovation floors with 14mm thickness, but they are not available in the 250mm width that we want.
I initially created the thread under "Flooring" but it might be more appropriate here.
To begin with, I want to say that I'm truly a novice in the area of floor construction. I just have a lot of ideas and don't know if they are feasible in a practical way.
Ok, to the question. We bought a villa from '76 with, I believe, 22mm chipboard flooring. We now want to install a "real" spruce floor for the feel of it. The thing is, the spruce floor is 30mm thick and I didn't want to raise door frames, thresholds, etc., if I were to lay the spruce floor directly on the chipboard flooring, i.e., floating. So it seems like I'll have to tear up the chipboard flooring and lay the spruce flooring the "right" way directly onto the wooden joists. Now to the problem: Are the interior walls also standing on the chipboard flooring? Do I have to tear down the interior walls too if they are on the chipboard flooring? Can you cut out the chipboard flooring while keeping the interior walls if these are on the chipboard flooring?
As I said at the beginning, totally new to this and would like to know the best way to install a 30mm spruce floor in a 70s house with chipboard flooring, do you have any answers or ideas?
I've thought about so-called renovation floors with 14mm thickness, but they are not available in the 250mm width that we want.
Hello again! 
Absolutely no one who has experience with this? It would be interesting to know how you did it if there is anyone who has installed solid flooring in a house with spångolv. Or maybe someone who just has an idea?
Absolutely no one who has experience with this? It would be interesting to know how you did it if there is anyone who has installed solid flooring in a house with spångolv. Or maybe someone who just has an idea?
I had the same problem, almost anyway... We had issues with the crawl space, which meant we had to tear up about 80 m2 of spruce flooring and then lay down a new one. I know it's possible to remove and replace the same floor, but with my approach, it just ended up in splinters
I had the same idea as Bloink, but between the floor joists, the old floor had nothing to rest on when I used the reciprocating saw along the wall studs (if you know what I mean), so the "floor pieces" simply fell down into the foundation. I sawed up the floor on both sides of the wall. Otherwise, it would have worked excellently in my case.
My solution instead was to replace the old floor under the wall studs with the new floor. I took one side at a time so that the wall wouldn't be left hanging. It's worth mentioning that the wall was not load-bearing. Since your new floor is thicker, you'll probably need to chisel out a groove in the floor to bring it down to the thickness of the chipboard. If they are load-bearing walls and you proceed in the above manner, you can rent supports to avoid any settling.
Could that be something?
I had the same idea as Bloink, but between the floor joists, the old floor had nothing to rest on when I used the reciprocating saw along the wall studs (if you know what I mean), so the "floor pieces" simply fell down into the foundation. I sawed up the floor on both sides of the wall. Otherwise, it would have worked excellently in my case.
My solution instead was to replace the old floor under the wall studs with the new floor. I took one side at a time so that the wall wouldn't be left hanging. It's worth mentioning that the wall was not load-bearing. Since your new floor is thicker, you'll probably need to chisel out a groove in the floor to bring it down to the thickness of the chipboard. If they are load-bearing walls and you proceed in the above manner, you can rent supports to avoid any settling.
Could that be something?
A comment, and it's not meant to be nasty even if it sounds like it, but what a heck of a job for the floors.
Sure, if you're going to completely overhaul the whole house, then maybe, possibly, but barely then, as there is quite a bit else you need to spend time on.
A concrete tip, check with Logosol (www.logosol.se) if they know someone in your area who can saw and plane dried spruce to the dimensions you want.
/Kent
Sure, if you're going to completely overhaul the whole house, then maybe, possibly, but barely then, as there is quite a bit else you need to spend time on.
A concrete tip, check with Logosol (www.logosol.se) if they know someone in your area who can saw and plane dried spruce to the dimensions you want.
/Kent
Ok, thank you!
Snickarboden, you have made me think a little more, possibly it is a heck of a job that "tastes" a little, and in addition, you must have the luck that the inner walls are supported by the joists if you saw around them. No, it will probably be to custom order the flooring.
Snickarboden, you have made me think a little more, possibly it is a heck of a job that "tastes" a little, and in addition, you must have the luck that the inner walls are supported by the joists if you saw around them. No, it will probably be to custom order the flooring.