Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering 1 Aug 21, 2009 2:00 pm progress viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20401 sculptures viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26607 pole trouble viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25988 Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 2Aug 21, 2009 2:07 pm I have seen the pic but not to sure exactly were you are refering to. However if i was doing what you are saying i would consider seperating the old a new by a few boards going the oposite direction. This can be done is a reder or darker species to create a feature and or a boarder between the two rooms. Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 3Aug 21, 2009 2:10 pm seeking solutions We are extending an existing room with brushbox flooring. How do you treat the area where the new brushbox boards join on to the old ones? http://s655.photobucket.com/albums/uu272/seeking_solutions/?action=view¤t=P1020011.jpg The boards will run the length of the room Does anyone have any pics of their floor joints???? Hard to tell from your pic, but do the new boards run in the same direction as the old ones where they join ? I can't make out where the old boards are in that pic. If so, won't they just butt up against the old ones - assuming the installer will start from that point(which they should do). Once all boards (old and new) are sanded and polished - you won't even notice the join. Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 4Aug 21, 2009 3:14 pm borg I have seen the pic but not to sure exactly were you are refering to. However if i was doing what you are saying i would consider seperating the old a new by a few boards going the oposite direction. This can be done is a reder or darker species to create a feature and or a boarder between the two rooms. just came back from the site - got a better pic if it helps http://s655.photobucket.com/albums/uu272/seeking_solutions/?action=view¤t=9330ba27.jpg this is the room http://s655.photobucket.com/albums/uu272/seeking_solutions/?action=view¤t=54cc1f0d.jpg progress viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20401 sculptures viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26607 pole trouble viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25988 Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 5Aug 21, 2009 3:44 pm seeking solutions borg I have seen the pic but not to sure exactly were you are refering to. However if i was doing what you are saying i would consider seperating the old a new by a few boards going the oposite direction. This can be done is a reder or darker species to create a feature and or a boarder between the two rooms. just came back from the site - got a better pic if it helps http://s655.photobucket.com/albums/uu272/seeking_solutions/?action=view¤t=9330ba27.jpg this is the room http://s655.photobucket.com/albums/uu272/seeking_solutions/?action=view¤t=54cc1f0d.jpg right-o ... I get it now. Judging by the new pics, the new boards will run in the same direction as the old.... and butt up against them in a straight line. I'd suggest cutting back the old boards in a random jagged manner. Maybe every second one back to the previous joist. And the odd one back even further to the next joist. This will make the transition less obvious, if you get what I mean. The main aim would be to avoid the straight line join effect if possible. It won't cost you any extra in terms of boards, because you can just reuse what you cut away in other places. or you might have enough extra lengths of the new boards anyway. That's just my personal opinion (and I'm a perfectionist, so take it with a grain of salt). Someone with more experience with wooden floorboards might be able to tell you if it's worth the effort Or if the re-sanding and re-polishing will reduce that straight line join to something unnoticeable. Good luck. Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 6Aug 21, 2009 5:10 pm This pic is the floor in one of our bedrooms. When we ripped up the carpet we found that the room had been extended onto a verandah and the old gappy exterior boards had just been covered with masonite and carpeted over the top - DIYers at their best! Our problems were 1. that the joists under the verandah section ran in a different direction to those in the main part of the bedroom, and, 2. we sourced our 'new' floorboards at the demo yard and weren't able to get enough of the same width as the existing ones. In the end, it came up pretty good - fantastic in comparison with what was there before!!! Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 7Aug 21, 2009 5:21 pm JilaMint Judging by the new pics, the new boards will run in the same direction as the old.... and butt up against them in a straight line. I'd suggest cutting back the old boards in a random jagged manner. Maybe every second one back to the previous joist. And the odd one back even further to the next joist. This will make the transition less obvious, if you get what I mean. The main aim would be to avoid the straight line join effect if possible. It won't cost you any extra in terms of boards, because you can just reuse what you cut away in other places. or you might have enough extra lengths of the new boards anyway. That's just my personal opinion (and I'm a perfectionist, so take it with a grain of salt). Someone with more experience with wooden floorboards might be able to tell you if it's worth the effort Or if the re-sanding and re-polishing will reduce that straight line join to something unnoticeable. Good luck. Great idea. Not sure if the new boards will match in size but I will bring this up with the builder when we see the boards, thanks. progress viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20401 sculptures viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26607 pole trouble viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25988 Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 8Aug 21, 2009 5:23 pm kb46, what are widths of your boards (and that little one that is running across pls)?? progress viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20401 sculptures viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26607 pole trouble viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25988 Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 9Aug 21, 2009 5:37 pm Ours are quite narrow - the original house was probably built in the 50's or early 60's. The main section (RHS) with the original boards are about 58mm. The crossways board is 50mm. The 'new' boards in the extension section range from 60mm to 85mm - we just put these varying width ones in randomly. It was a bit of a jigsaw puzzle at the time but came up alright. If the crossways board ****** at a logical place in your room I would imagine it would come up fine and be the least amount of work. If it comes in a really illogical spot your eye would always be drawn to it and you'd be better off going to JilaMint's suggestion. Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 10Aug 21, 2009 6:14 pm that is what has me concerned - it is not in a position to break up the space into 'rooms'. I hope that JilaMints' solution works for us. Thank you both progress viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20401 sculptures viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26607 pole trouble viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25988 Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 11Aug 21, 2009 6:32 pm If your time/budget will stretch I would suggest ripping up the old boards and recycling them by mixing them in randomly with your new ones. Random width boards are trendy atm and this technique will help blend the old with the new. If you are getting someone in to do your floors, check whether that is worth it - with the labour to match up the old boards and mix them effectively that option may end up costing the same as an entire new floor. Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 12Aug 21, 2009 6:40 pm kb46 If your time/budget will stretch I would suggest ripping up the old boards and recycling them by mixing them in randomly with your new ones. Random width boards are trendy atm and this technique will help blend the old with the new. If you are getting someone in to do your floors, check whether that is worth it - with the labour to match up the old boards and mix them effectively that option may end up costing the same as an entire new floor. I am afraid that if I get the builder to quote on anything else that is not in the agreement my DH will have a heart attack Pulling up current ones is not an option progress viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20401 sculptures viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26607 pole trouble viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25988 Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 13Aug 21, 2009 8:47 pm kb46 If your time/budget will stretch I would suggest ripping up the old boards and recycling them by mixing them in randomly with your new ones. Random width boards are trendy atm and this technique will help blend the old with the new. If you are getting someone in to do your floors, check whether that is worth it - with the labour to match up the old boards and mix them effectively that option may end up costing the same as an entire new floor. Ohhh... that's brilliant. Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 14Aug 22, 2009 12:01 am I'm about to suggest something rather "out there" - don't know if it goes with your general scheme or whether you could take this idea and build on it so it does fit with your scheme... Have you seen the floors of Balinese resorts where they combine concrete, stone and wood and other textures together? Could you stop the current wooden floor with a square edge (pretty much as it is) and then have a wide patterned border (maybe with mosaic tiles or rounded stones) and repeat parts of that border in the next room to continue the flow. These pics are from the Karndean website. I wish I could find a picture to better illustrate exactly what I am thinking. Thes pics from a couple of UK websites (here and here) show wood used as borders and the last pic of a timber centrepiece is from a NZ site: Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Like I said, I don't know whether this idea is just so, so wrong... Re: Timber floor joins - advice needed please 15Aug 23, 2009 10:14 am do you have a choice as to the direction that they will lay them? ie has the builder asked you - or are you assuming you have a choice? Personally I'd lay them in the same direction if the lengths are best used that way, and just do a single feature board at the join. Building Standards; Getting It Right! Long story short, a toilet room is going to back onto our main bedroom and I want to make it close to soundproof. Im going to build two frames (pretty much a room within a… 0 10437 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. 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