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

[joz*garage]

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@kabarine wrote:

That why we are considering tiling it and the kitchen, seems to be the way we a re leaning atm for for ease of maintenance 

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if i had a bare concrete floor to work with in my extention room

i'd go with tiles too , 12' squares or larger

dunno how you'd go with your yellow tongue floor foundation

tiles do weigh a bit and there would movement there too, im thinking the foundation might need to be reinforced and there might be possible future grout cracks 

[kabarine]

Joz the foundations are strong enough to take the weight of the tiles

[joz*garage]

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@kabarine wrote:

Joz the foundations are strong enough to take the weight of the tiles

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ive heard people place tiles over solid timber floorboards because theres minimal movement

but tiles is best on concrete foundations 

i just think with yellow tongue floors (i had that in my previous house in the kitchen) it would creak and carry on

i'd ask a pro to make sure

but if you can get away with it, yeah, tiles..so easy to maintain and would be my number one choice for all the house

[kabarine]

Joz we had the body of the house re stumped about 3 months ago, the sun room foundations were strengthened as well, so will def take the weigth 

[joz*garage]

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@kabarine wrote:

Joz we had the body of the house re stumped about 3 months ago, the sun room foundations were strengthened as well, so will def take the weigth 

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yes ok, you think it should take the weight

but i'd still check with a builder first.. to make sure, and to check if tiling over yellow tongue flooring would be ok too coz of the movement

[sandypas]

We tiled an entrance hallway over a very solid timber floor.  We had a professional do it and asked should we have the special underlay stuff you can put under them but he said it was solid enough and not to bother.  Within 3 months we had cracked grout and one cracked tile.  As joz suggests, get advice.

[joz*garage]

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@sandypas wrote:

We tiled an entrance hallway over a very solid timber floor.  We had a professional do it and asked should we have the special underlay stuff you can put under them but he said it was solid enough and not to bother.  Within 3 months we had cracked grout and one cracked tile.  As joz suggests, get advice.

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the OP wants to tile the kichen too, which is pine floorboards from memory, you'd think with pine floors theres more flex there too, then other solid timbers

i vaguely recall the kitchen in my previous house.. i wanted to tile it, ripped the carpet off (yes the original owners place carpet in the kitchen, lol) underneath that was lino, and before that yellow tongue

i got advice and quotes from a flooring company, i think they said theres a fair bit of preparation to tile over that

must be the underlay you're talking about sandy, and the price turned me off

so i left it with the lino, came up a treat with a good clean and polish anyway

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

i laid almost 600 square feet of tile in my home, the subfloor was 1" plywood, and the underlayment was LP backer board..........it's been 20 years now, and I've had virtually no grout cracking.

[kabarine]

Our choice of flooring is something we will be giving a lot more thought to before we make a final decision. I am thinking it will come down to either  wood or tiles in the end.. 

[daydream**believer]

we put floating floors all through our old house and plan on doing the same in this house.

We love them. Much tougher than normal wood floors.