Timber Overlay on Concrete

[swampdog]

G'day folks,

Keeping you updated... In the end I didnt take Trevor's (no doubt very good) advice. I went with the battens. Given my boards are only 12mm thick I have brought the spacing between battens in to 28mm.

I have squeezed some polyester batts into the gap (tasmania remember) under the boards and it may just be in my mind, but i think the rooms are warmer already. It is a lot of work... much more than i anticipated - after a couple of weekends at it i feel like i've been in the stocks. But i'm dealing with it since the floor is looking great. Don't take this as advice i am probably younger and stupider than most of you folks... time will tell.

cheers swampdog

[seriph1]

hope you mean 280mm and not 28 ....

captive air of any kind helps - batts or just air.... but being Tassweeegia I am with you - my feet are cold just thinking about it!

[Ramps]

Thanks for your feedback swampdog
You're a brave man to go against the flow of these professionals
But I'm likely to do the same ... being a bit green I have seeing all this great Jarrah going down the tip so I'm going to use recycled full 19mm and some of the shorter pieces as battens. Why not? Might create a great market for 2nd hand flooring.