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Housing - New Build: Weather-resistant flooring

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    • CommentAuthorEd Davies
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2017 edited
     
    I'm just putting in the joists for my ground-floor ceiling/loft floor which might seem a bit premature with no roof over the top but it should help with providing a platform for construction of said roof.

    I'm currently undecided what deck to put on the joists until the roof is on. Maybe some semi-sacrificial OSB which can be recycled into non-critical applications later. Or CaberDek (but that only lasts 42 days outside and it might take me 43 days to get the roof up).

    Or is there anything else I could use? Maybe some sort of commercial/light-industrial flooring which will be happy out in the weather for a while and will be suitable for areas for storage and various alternative energy bits and bobs.

    I was looking at my container floor when I thought of that but container flooring is not the sort of thing you want in a house, particularly a well sealed one, as it's heavily treated.

    Or anything to cover ordinary 22 mm chipboard flooring which will protect it long enough and will stand being walked on, etc.

    Any suggestions?


    [¹] http://norbord.co.uk/products/caberboard/caberdek/
    • CommentAuthorowlman
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2017 edited
     
    Whenever I've been in this sort of fix I don't hesitate and buy reinforced tarps.

    e.g. http://www.tarpaulinsdirect.co.uk/tarpaulins/monotex-tarpaulin

    I've built conservatories extensions etc. and used them as full winter protection and you always find a second use for them. No reason why you can't use them as floor covering even if you do a belt and braces job and put sacrificial poly sheet stapeled underneath.
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    caberboard board works well , seal and tape the joins. I've had snow on it.
    you could tape some sheets of corex on it for added protection
    • CommentAuthortony
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2017 edited
     
    We used to lay chipboard, then 1F roof felt, battened on joins, turned down between joists and into stair well then get on with it and get roof on asap, never had any damage just a few damp patches which dried out very fast.
    • CommentAuthorringi
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2017
     
    scaffolding boards come to mind, but I don't know how much they will cost
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      CommentAuthordjh
    • CommentTimeMar 29th 2017
     
    Posted By: jamesingramcaberboard board works well , seal and tape the joins. I've had snow on it.
    you could tape some sheets of corex on it for added protection

    Yes, we did all that and the tarps too. Plus we had a metal scaffold roof over everything as well.

    The Caberdek does work well, although my wife spent lots of time patching the dings that appeared in the plastic on top and in brushing the pools of water that appeared over the edge. But it is now our first floor with no signs of any damage or problems and I seem to remember it was there for a lot more than 42 days before being inside a watertight building.

    The correx was mainly useful for protecting the floor from the lime plaster. The tarps - I'm sure they helped but they do puddle a lot and inevitably have holes. The scaffold roof kept everything coming down out except for a couple of point holes. And it didn't keep out what came sideways, although the screening mesh helped there. We're in a relatively calm part of the UK, so Ed might need to be very careful.
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    I leave a board out for the stairs or ladder and sweep the water down off the 1st floor if it collects usually the roofs on and water tight pretty quck but have left it longer if a jobs stop due to hold ups and its been ok

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