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 4Aug 21, 2009 3:14 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 7Aug 21, 2009 5:21 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 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 10478 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. 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