finding a router bit to replicate t & g on damaged ends?

[Jake]

Strip flooring is designed to be used on a substrate, not direct on joists. Whack down down ply or osb and away you go. The t&g is just two rebates, one on each side.

How's he going to sort out the change in floor level and sneak the boards under his skirting boards?

Gosh, he's going to have to take the skirting off.

 

[RogerS]

Strip flooring is designed to be used on a substrate, not direct on joists. Whack down down ply or osb and away you go. The t&g is just two rebates, one on each side.

How's he going to sort out the change in floor level and sneak the boards under his skirting boards?

Gosh, he's going to have to take the skirting off.

You're making a big assumption there.

You have no information as to how old his property is. In the last flat I refurbished, the skirting board had been nailed there since the 1950's and impossible to remove without splitting and wrecking the very tall skirting boards.

 

[dennis]

Strip flooring is often laid on joists, and secret nailed, drill pilot holes at an angle just above the tongue, nail and punch just under flush.

Dennis

 

[Jake]

Strip flooring is often laid on joists, and secret nailed, drill pilot holes at an angle just above the tongue, nail and punch just under flush.

Having googled it, I see you are right - I am corrected!

I wouldn't trust it myself, but I guess it works.