Almost ready to put down the new laminate flooring. But first, I needed to get the sub-floor straight (quite literally), Some spots were good, some were OK and some were not very good. As the floor would be covered with plaster, dust, paint and who knows what else, we decided to do this part last. But hey, after it goes down, the rest of the kitchen can go back in.
When we removed the previous flooring, we noticed that the cross joist had moved off the sleeper wall. I pushed this back on and added some additional bracing to make sure it stayed put. With this all in place, on went the new floorboard. I picked up some square edge boards from B&Q. These were great - most of all the other ones that I've seen were tongue and groove. Not so good when the rest of the boards are square edge.
I progressed around the room ripping up all the old boards that had seen better days. Everything was battened down with a generous helping of wood screws to keep the flexing and squeaking to a minimum.
Then I had to go round and lift/hammer down all the remaining nails. There were about 50 of them. This was after removing well over 1000 in the last couple of months. Why so many nails? No idea, but really annoying.
After that, just some scraping of plaster and paint and lots and lots of sweeping getting ready for the new flooring to go down.
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