I have 30m2 of elka solid this week to do. Its a 22mm chipboard floor overlaid with 5.5mm sp101. I was planning to use toungetites but been reading my nicf guidance notes and there recommended to stick, trouble is getting the adhesive in time. What you recon?
What's the ply been fixed with? If its staples I don't think they are strong enough if you then stick a solid floor down. Think you would be best off with the tongue tite screws.
firstly im no wood expert lol But i have done a few normally on a chipboard floor i over ply with 9mm Is 6mm ply gonna be thick enough or am i just overengineering overthinking those situations? lol
Any thing over 5 " wide i stick & portanail/primatech /powernail................! you have got plenty of depth with 27mm for a 50mm nail/cleat. Use a MS adhesive it cleans off easy.If you don't want to stick all over bead stick with MS sausage alternate glue & nails at 150mm centres.
Surely the nail will only hold the wood until the adhesive goes off ,i would agree with your reasoning if you were only mechanically fixing but once the glue goes off the bond to the ply will be sufficient
I have nailed ply with ringnails 19mm spotnailer spacing as it should be. just a bit concerned the toungetites may not hold into chipboard as they are very thin, I could get some ms but will delay job. wood is 130mm wide random length, the back of the plank has three grooves down it about 10mm wide & 2mm deep. Will a b3 trowel still be ok as laybond ms instructs I have a b11 coming tomorrow, which one would be best to use, don't do that many solids all engineered really.
With 6mm ply? That's not gonna stop the bottom of the chipboard blowing out! If your plying it your better off gluing. I've nailed over chipboard loads and not had a problem just saying you shouldn't really do it.
Started today sticking it, laybond ms. Sent the lad off this morning to get some 3 hour round trip, but sticking has to be better. Chipboard isnt a good fixing imo.
