bathroom floorboard dilemma

Put hardboard over the floorboards.

Bill

Well there are boards missing fromour bathroom under the bath, and apparently this is how it was built. I guess it made the plumbing easier.

Brian

I'd use moisture resistant 22mm chip (grade P5). I've seen that stuff almost floating in water for days without degrading. Failing that, use 19mm (or whatever) wood and pack it over the joists with hardboard (or whatever)

Yes - easiest way is to get the nearest thickness under and pack it up level. Decent card can be good for this. Once you've got the correct thickness by trial and error, use tacks to hold it to the joists.

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

Yes, if it's just a few boards I'd patch it.

I did that in my bathroom - I packed the boards out with plastic packers. Having bought a bag for a job last year I much prefer them to faffing with bit of card, hardboard etc.though I probably wouldn't bother for a couple of boards :-)

I certainly wouldn't want to leave some board lover than others. Though worth deciding on the flooring. If it something that will require overboarding with something might be worth just putting down a new floor anyway?

That did cross my mind but I wondered about using ply since this is a bathroom and it might get wet.

That's what I was thinking, that if I could get it all level, I would not need to overboard.

Granted it's not a common occurrence, but I think it's also nice to have access to the floorboards if you need to lift one to get to a pipe or wire, which is difficult if overboarded.

Thanks, Stephen.

I'd not, unless you need a super smooth floor for vinyl tiles etc.

Far better to do a proper repair.

It's really not difficult to replace a few floorboards and get a level result.

It is likely more of a problem finding decent timber that won't shrink if there are hot pipes etc underneath. The ordinary stuff you'll buy from a shed etc will.

Probably worth looking at a re-claim yard for original if you have one handy.

I like a bit of slope on a bathroom floor so when (not if) there's an accident the water has a route to go which is the least bad...

what would be the upside of replacing the good ones with more good ones?

So you can readily get 22mm.

What a lot of pointlessness.

If there's any likelihood of the boards being on show, get used ones to match existing.

In message , Stephen writes

Depends on what's the floor covering on top is as to what diference that makes though. Some flooring does really want overboarding though.