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Hello!


Could anyone please recommend someone affordable and good who could install some wooden flooring?


Also, bizarrely in our house we have original wooden floors in the corridor upstairs, bathroom and one of the bedrooms, but other than that all of the original floorboards have been removed and replaced with chipboard.


We'd like to install some new floorboards and remove the existing carpet buts it's difficult to know what to do to 'match' the originals (I know that actually buying original floorboards is crazily expensive).


I like the white painted floorboard look but in that case would you use cheap solid pine click together flooring and paint it? Or has anyone found any click together affordable floorboards anywhere locally that look a good enough match to the original floorboards? I was also thinking I could get the pine floorboards and stain everywhere in the house with a dark wood stain/varnish like Jacobean Oak? I was wondering what solutions other people have come up with.


Any suggestions/tips/help much appreciated!


Thank you!!!

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Are you sure that the orginal floor boards have been removed? Or has chipboard been installed over them (and you have to wonder why?) This may have been because of damage or for sound-proofing. Chipboard itself would not normally be sufficiently strong (I would have thought) to support traffic (and furniture) if just laid over joists. Chipboard can be installed over an existing floor to provide an even surface for other coverings, where the floor may itself be very uneven or in poor condition. Where you have lino or other similar coverings a flat surface, such as chipboard, would be advisable as a sub-strate.


Make sure in installing any new flooring that you are not causing future access problems for any services running under the floor (water/ central heating pipes, electric installations) which you may need to get to.


Generally the wider the board you can buy the better - and boards which are laminated (rather than simply solid wood) will have less movement to them, are less likely to warp or move over time (i.e. to shrink or expand as temperatures/ humidity change).

Can highly recommend a guy called joe he did a fab job replacing my tatty old floorboards was very friendly,clean ,tidy and found him to be exellent value for money,he even water my plants for while i was away for the weekend,this is his number 0793 183 7240 ,hope this helps

I used Angelo's Flooring to provide & install engineered oak flooring a couple of years ago.

They were brilliant. And the most reasonable quote I had.

They are based in Peckham and have a shop/showroom on Peckham PArk Road.

Tel: 020 76393737 or www.angeloflooring.co.uk

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