Floating Floorboards Yes or No?

[kabarine]

We are looking at replacing the old worn carpet in the sun/family room    .... Options are floating floor boards or genuine timber flooring, so would welcome any suggestions, for and against each type or flooring pls

[kabarine]

I  had polished pine flooring in our house for approx 20 yrs , never had a prob wih it, although it prob needed re laquering in the hallway/doorways when I sold the house. Martini, the lounge room floor in this house is pine, most of needs replacing due to termites damage, I have no idea how long it has been there or whether or not it is the original flooring.

[tdom1990]

We put down Timber Impressions Platinum Flame Myrtle Flooring (from HN) in the rumpus room and didn't have any problems. The rest of the floors were timber and I just mopped with the same product.

[harley_babes_hoard]

We left ours with the knots and imperfections too, it looks much nicer I think. We did have the option to have them all filled up.

[la_au71]

i just did a tabletopewith bunnings $45/m2 or so bamboo flooring. (not the laminated stuff)

it splinters, and i wouldn't want it as a floor as i have soft feet and don't need my feet to look like a pin cushion.

it is also very hard and brittle in a way so you can't put a screw into it without splintering it. the screw won't stick anyway.

i have worked with many materials but that stuff makes my neck swell.

i hate it.

it has tongue and groves but they don't fit so i had to take off considerable bits of the tongue to make it fit into each other AT ALL!

i have laid floors of solid wood that was so twisted we had to use a car jack to get them in place (that is why we got them for free) they were SOO twisted into ALL directions, but i would rather pay for  floor boards like that than getting that bamboo stuff for free. i am really NOT impressed!

i hate bamboo. it's one of the most splintery (composite) woods i have encountered.

i hate it for being so splintery and hardsish at the same time, you try to put a screw into it - it just won't stick. it's a nightmare.

did i mention i hate that bamboo flooring? you know it was MY idea to buy it. i thought it was a good idea then, being solid ...stuff and not cardboard with plastic laminate on top.

how wrong i was.

[i-need-a-martini]

Umm. Not sure you can compare the laying of a good floor with a good quality material with some el cheapo rubbish you bought at your local Bunnings.

And how can it be splintering if it is so hard that you cant put a screw through it?

[la_au71]

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@i-need-a-martini wrote:

Umm. Not sure you can compare the laying of a good floor with a good quality material with some el cheapo rubbish you bought at your local Bunnings.

And how can it be splintering if it is so hard that you cant put a screw through it?

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yeah that's the weird thing.

it's sorta brittle.

it's hard but brittle.

i have worked with many different materials but none was as diappointing and upsetting as this one.

the wooden floor i had to use a car jack one (it had been cut wet it twisted like mad) i thought was the most annoying one i had encountered...until i bought that bamboo. i mean i am talking about using 2 car jacks to get a single floor board into place and then screwing it down with BIG HEAVY screws before it jumps out on you.

i would love to pay doble price for that twisted nightmare than to have to deal with bamboo flooring again.

[la_au71]

you CAN put a screw into it but it won't stick.

it's sorta hard to explain if you haven't seen it for yourself.

i thought i had seen it all 😞

[joz*garage]

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@kabarine wrote:

Joz I just re checked, it's  Yellow Tongue flooring under the carpet NOT masonite, my mistake and there is nothing under it expect fresh air. The sunroom is an addition to the rest of the house, it was done about 30 yrs ago, the main part house was built around 1910 and has pine flooring, ao of which we have to replace. After reading the comments, we will go with either pine or hardwood flooring, depending on the cost.  I dont think we would be happy with the other. Harley your floor/s look lovely 🙂

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hmm, whats the surface look like on the existing yellow tongue flooring?

something i'd consider to spruce up , if going on the cheap & if the surface looks ok 

[i-need-a-martini]

joz - yellow tongue isn't a floor. It is simply a building substrate made of particle board sheets that you put a floor on. Used mainly to get a cheap and quick structure down.

Kabarine - It also means that if you take the yellow tongue up,  you may not have enough joists in the floor to hold a timber tongue and groove floor. You may have little choice but to lay a laminated floor over the existing tongue and groove.

[crystal**flake]

DONT use laminate.