I am laying a flooring of chipboard tongue and groove on top of 4 inch 
insulation boards.  Is it best to glue boards together or not.  I have been 
advised to do both and unsure which way to go.
Many thanks.
Neil

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Neil   wrote:


> I am laying a flooring of chipboard tongue and groove on top of 4 inch
> insulation boards.  Is it best to glue boards together or not.  I
> have been advised to do both and unsure which way to go.
> Many thanks.
> Neil


You can't do both - it's one or the other! <g>
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Its just the way I tell it.  I was told to do both but not at the same time. 
One person said glue one said don't glue. I just cant decide which is best.
Neil
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> In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
> Neil   wrote:
>
>> I am laying a flooring of chipboard tongue and groove on top of 4 inch
>> insulation boards.  Is it best to glue boards together or not.  I
>> have been advised to do both and unsure which way to go.
>> Many thanks.
>> Neil
>
> You can't do both - it's one or the other! <g>
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In article <dfso7e$bi8$1@newsg1.svr.pol.co.uk>, 
neil@lockhead.fsnet.co.uk says...

> Its just the way I tell it.  I was told to do both but not at the same time. 
> One person said glue one said don't glue. I just cant decide which is best.


Neither ... but one of them may be better  :-)

If you don't glue then it probably will creak like hell, I know as I did 
a quick loft flooring once with the smaller chipboard t&g boards 
(screwed straight onto the floor joists). But then a loft normally only 
is accessed once in a blue moon.

If you *do* glue then it will still creak in places but if you want a 
"quiet" floor then it's probably best.

If you ever need to get *under* the floor (to fix a leak for example, 
been there!) then you'll get your circular saw out anyway, glued or not 
glued.

 From having tried to find out what Scottish Building Regulations say 
about wonky floors in new houses (as a bedroom my brand new house had a 
2cm "wonk" thay you actually could trip over) I seem to recall that the 
British Standard they refer to specifies that it should be glued, but 
somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.

Neil wrote:

> I am laying a flooring of chipboard tongue and groove on top of 4 inch 
> insulation boards.  Is it best to glue boards together or not.  I have been 
> advised to do both and unsure which way to go.
> Many thanks.
> Neil 
> 
> 

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> If you don't glue then it probably will creak like hell, I know as I did a 
> quick loft flooring once with the smaller chipboard t&g boards (screwed 
> straight onto the floor joists). But then a loft normally only is accessed 
> once in a blue moon.
>
> If you *do* glue then it will still creak in places but if you want a 
> "quiet" floor then it's probably best.
>
> If you ever need to get *under* the floor (to fix a leak for example, been 
> there!) then you'll get your circular saw out anyway, glued or not glued.
>
> From having tried to find out what Scottish Building Regulations say about 
> wonky floors in new houses (as a bedroom my brand new house had a 2cm 
> "wonk" thay you actually could trip over) I seem to recall that the 
> British Standard they refer to specifies that it should be glued, but 
> somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.



Thanks for that.   It is a new extension and the building inspector said lay 
4 inch insulation done then cover that with a membrane and then lay the 
boards straight on top.  He never said wether to glue or not.  We have no 
pipes underneath so hopefully it would not need to come up again.  With it 
not been on joists we cannot screw to anything so on the strength of advice 
kindly given upto now I will glue it together (unless someone as a better 
idea)
Thanks to all.
Neil