Floor advice required

I relayed my living room floorboards to decrease the gaps but I also had to fill in some gaps that were left because of broken tongues . What I did was cut strips off a spare board and tapered the pieces and tapped them in to the gaps with glue and then planed off the excess. It worked wll and looks excellent as the pieces were from the same matching source. Stuart

I've heard it recommended to use rope or papier mache (sp) which can then be stained with the floor boards. Personally I did neither and just put the gaps down to natural characteristics of the wood.

Space

That's what we did too. Whta's the problem with gaps?

Mary

Depends whether or not they are gaps casued by shrinkage of the boards where the tongues and grooves are still complete . If the gaps go right through then that causes dust etc to come up from below . Stuart

Gravity will ensure that dust will also go down :-)

Mary

Then cover the lot with hardboard.

You can fill wide gaps with fillets above (glue one side only). Papier mache is best for smaller cracks (made with wallpaper paste).

J.B.