replacing particle board subfloor
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Tile with Particle Board Subfloor
Comments (6)Neither particle board or luan have any place in a tile installation. Both will delaminate in the presence of moisture. Your floor should be taken down to the studs. I use 3/4" exterior grade plywood, placed perpendicular to the studs with another layer of minimum 3/8" staggered to the first...face grade no less than "C." Do not glue the second layer and screw it only to the first layer...not into the joists. On this, either 1/4" cement board should be set in loosly-mixed thinset and screwed into place OR an uncoupling membrane such as DITRA installed over the second layer. You now have a totally bulletproof floor to tile upon. Sounds like a lot, but you only want to do this once!...See Morereplace particle board before install HW
Comments (4)Thanks for the responses: Jerry t--I have been quoted about 1400 (roughly) total sq feet, and it is our home. The $9000 quote for simply removing particle board then replacing with plywood was only one aspect of a very high estimate. I think that what we may end up doing is pulling up the particle board ourselves and either paying the installer or having my husband put down the plywood. I am just not comfortable having the flooring installed over just the subfloor. I don't believe the subfloor is 3/4" anyway and that just makes it worse in my opinion! Floorguy, the plywood simply looks like a 4x4 sheet (or something approximating those dimensions); I see no indication that there is T & G by looking at it....See MoreWhat to do with these beams
Comments (15)So putting the finishing touches on everything now, the fireplace is on the deck all sandblasted ready for some paint & gaskets, but what an improvement! If I could go back in time I would have went through the trouble of removing the brick and reframing the floor so that I could have the marble on the bottom flush, and maybe even have gone with the simulated wood tile to blend it in with the floor, oh well. Still an improvement. Spent about $750 in materials on replacing particle board subfloor, underlayment, and laminate + new switches, outlets, paint, etc, and probably about $400 in materials to do the veneered stone and marble....See MoreParticle board subfloor
Comments (6)I recommend you either remove and replace it with plywood, or you install the plywood on top of it. Here is a useful discussion about the few pros and mainly the cons of particle board underlayment: Particle Board...See Morepuff_2007
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