Building a Garden Room Laying Chipboard Flooring, 22mm Egger Protect, The full How to Guide on site 

Lucky young lad having a mentor like you. He'll go far.

Always a pleasure to watch you work Rob. 👍

Nice to see a clean and tidy job your lad is so lucky to work with a master well done

Just how I have laid two floors with P5 and glue and floor screws. Well done. Thanks for making your videos.

I just wanted to say what a great chippy you are. Seriously top notch. Although, we probably did our apprenticeships around the same time, I was taught when using normal chipboard to use PVA on the T&Gs and on the joists, which I have continued to do, to this day.

Superb vid again Robin ..... absolutely a wonderful walk through of the methods and very informative.

I've said this before but will say it again.....You are an absolute pleasure to watch. You are a real genuine tradesman that takes pride in what you do. The quality of your work is on another level very few people reach. I agree with others when they say, anyone working as an apprentice with you has got the best mentor money can buy. Always held you in very high regard. Its an absolute pleasure when I see you've posted new videos and that notification bell has been highlighted. What more can I say apart from, keep these videos coming. Thanks Robin..

Great job guys! Looks awesome.

Absolutely amazing . I hope every builder in the world learns from your videos.

Quality workmanship as always

Fantastic job Robin !!!!!!!

Good to see how this floor should be laid properly. I had a friend who bought a new build and had them back out numerous times for the squeaky and lifting flooring. They never did resolve it and I can see why as they probably didn't use the correct glue or in the quantity that you should be using it. If I were 30 years younger I'd love to have you as a mentor. Great work ethic.

Lovely job Robin, as always

I admire you Robin

Wonderful once again

Excellent video and quality boards 👍

Great to see a quality job! Was nervous watching you dance over the glue but you missed it without even looking 😂

Excellent guidance, much appreciated!

Just got back from sorting out a floor on a 30 year old house. Joints not supported, no glue, copper pipes rubbing on boards, ring shank nails worked loose, appalling squeaks everywhere. If the developer had invested a few hours in doing it properly like you did the owner would have avoided years of awful noise and saved me three days grovelling about on hands and knees. I see you working steadily, tidily, not cutting corners and the end result is a permanent high quality solution. Me trying to build the quality in afterwards is a very expensive and only marginal solution that should not have been needed at all.

I just did my floor on my extension DiY and this was a great help r.e. the information on Method A etc. Thanks.

Thanks for sharing and great job and video

I have used chipboard flooring since 1969. I use Kronospan a British product with a waterproof finish. I use silicon in the joints with a 5 thou gap to allow for any movement. Screwed every 6 inches. These 8x2 boards will fly over an 18 centre joints without a support. noggin. You are doing a good job men.

Another meticulously planned and professionally executed job, you are a real credit to your profession. Interestingly, PU glue must have moisture to cure properly with the moisture content of the air usually sufficient to reach an acceptable bond. This adhesion or bond can be improved by atomising water on the P5 board joint prior to fixing. This helps the glue properly penetrate the board fibres and also ensures the PU to reach maximum cure and strength. That’s why it sticks to your skin so enthusiastically due to moisture or perspiration. Atomising takes longer and some would say is too fussy but it certainly makes a strength difference and also makes the finished job far more moisture resistant which is never a bad idea in an potential ingress situation like a bathroom. Just a thought!

Great video as usual.

The new doo looks sharp rob

It’s about time we got the floor adhesive they use in the USA that fits in the foam gun- looks loads mor manageable

I’m known as a bit of a perfectionist but this guy puts me well into the shade! EXCELLENT.

Nice days work 👍

Good design to reduce or prevent any un-necessary wastage especially when there is a shortage of building materials .

Can’t believe the amount of glue required. Really good though and such a relief when the floor is down. On with the less back breaking work now. 👏🏾👏🏾

A garden room built better than any house 👍

@Robin Clevett . Nice work, text book as always. You've clearly got to that point where your reputation (earned) gets you the work where the customers want quality rather than speed and lowest price. Best way to be, cos there's always some guy who goes in cheaper, even if he's losing money long term

Good stuff

How the F)&;( can this gave Dislikes. Robert i have watched your vids for the last years and you are The Best. Your method of explaining the technical aspects is so clear and educational. You gave a new suscriber.

Chipboard has come a long way remember the old ring shanks , very impressed with the system , won't like to get that glue on my boots it'd get everywhere 😩 . 👍🇮🇪☘️👏👏😁

Fantastic videos. Great to watch. Do you need a vapour barrier between the boards and the insulation?

I’ve left this flooring out in the open for longer than 60 days and it was fine very good flooring and can be tiled over no need to over board

Hi, Robin, maybe a tutorial on screw types and uses would be interesting.

Oh to have just 1% of this man's knowledge and craft...

Dobre!

Bits of this reminded me of ‘Police Squad’ where sometimes Leslie Nielsen/Robin gets handed something by an offscreen giant

Never met a anyone with such a great positive attitude to teaching carpentry and the building trade, unfortunately that’s why my career has not really taken off by having worked for people that just want u to make their money

Much nicer board you have there than here. 3.6m x 0.8m Yellow tongue flooring 19mm 450mm centres for joists. Crappy plastic strip for a tongue. When I was an apprentice chippy on site over 20 years ago there we were using Caber flooring, PVA glue on the joists and joints and firing in ring shanks with the Paslode. Cheers Jerry

Would be great if you could do a video on understanding drawings of a cut roof

Hi Robin, it looks like you left the excess glue on the joints without cleaning them off. Is that part of the process to allow the glue to fully cure? To be cut out after? Really love the channel and videos. Fantastic work.

Superb job as ever!! Would this flooring be good to replace normal 22mm chipboard in my bathroom refurb? I'm fitting an Impey aqua dec, and the entire floor will be tanked once it's down, then fitted with ProGrid UFH decoupling mat and finally tiled. I was going to use marine ply, but finding 22mm is impossible plus it's £130 for an 8x4!! 😳

Are you a full metabo man now robin? I've been using it for years and love it

As well as the cut edges, I think you have to also paint the screw/nail heads and any penetrations to get Egger's "lifetime guarantee" not sure it's worth the paper it's written on though.

NOOICE!

Brilliant video,i am busy putting 22mm flooring down now but when finished it will be roughlyc20mm lowercthan ajoiningvfloor so needcto build up ,could you advise on best way to do it,ie plywood sheet and how to fix down,screw,nail.? Many thanks would appreciate any guidance.

It looks like it is hermetically sealed, just asking about ventilation under the floor?

robin ,,, just wondering what carpenters pencils you would recommend,,, also how do you choose to sharpen them i.e with a knife or the required sharpener if its for the flat ones,,,, the ones i seem to have the lead keeps breaking after they have been sharpened,,, they were cheap so obviously you get what you pay for,, if you could send me in the right direction i would be grateful,,, ps good informative videos ,, keep up the good work thanks scott

Robin - did you borrow that lad from the Coldstream Guards? He's bloody tall!

Top stuff. Was just wondering what measures you could take if needed to stop rats coming up through the insulation? Because if they did get in and damaged cables etc they would be a real nightmare to get to.

When I'm doing decking or garden buildings I use 400mm centres on the floor joists, am I wasting my time?! Do you not get a bit of bounce at 600 centres? Love the channel by the way, great work. Cheers, Bob Rogers.

Hi Robin, great videos very useful! I am planning my garden room now, and am working out the floor. Would you ever cover the whole base in Egger Protect, then build the external walls on top? Or would that leave the chipboard edge to close to the outside? The only reason I am thinking of doing that is so the boards have support on the first and last row on the long edges. My floor joists are 120 (The base will be 4 sections, of 3800 x 1800 bolted together, total base will be 7600 x 3600) so after the insulation I only have 20mm of depth for floor board noggins, which is not enough. Other option I thought of is triple timbers around the perimeter, so the wall sit on the first two, the there is one around the inside perimeter to support the floor boards. - but that seems like a waste of timber. Any help much appreciated. Many thanks Simon

What about laying a few boards down as a temporary work platform 👌

Why do you need an expansion gap, if the sheets are glued to the joists they can't expand or the glue joint will break, also is the gap between the insulation and the sheets important?

Was there no more parts to this series? Shame if not as it looks like it's was going to be an awesome build 👌

Can you use those boards on a flat roof Robin ? Great vid again thanks Robin.

Robin, what are your thoughts on glueing down floorboards. Is that the way forward?? Many contractors don’t like doing it in case there’s an issue and they need to open up the floorboard again. I can see their point. We used No More Ply concrete boards instead of normal floorboards in our renovation. I glued them down and then screwed them in too. I just fear that in 5-10-15 years when I want to update/check something, I won’t be able to take the boards off without damaging them.

Hi , what if you use rockwool between joists and have the polythene vapour barrier over the top ? Do you just follow the same process or just glue the tongue and groove . Also would it be ok to build stud walls onto the chipboard as opposed to the joists? Doing a single skin garage conversion to a games room . Cheers great content !

Great video Robin, Do you prefer the Metabo plunge saw to the Festool....? As i know from your videos on skill build that you love Fesstool plunge saws....?

Hi Robin, please could you tell me which bonding glue do you use? I've just bought a house that needs new floors all the way through. Thanks Daz

Have you ever used the newish green glue tape on the joists. About 3mm self adhesive to the joists and then you still glue the t&g joints? I fancied using it thinking it would prevent any future creaks 10 or 20 years down the line because theres an actual cushion between the boards and joists.

I maybe tempted to glue it and screw it myself 🤣. 👍🏻 From me. 🇬🇧

Hi Robin loving the videos as usual. I noticed that your wall studs are doubled up every second one. Is that to take the edges of the sheets rather than just centring on one single stud. ? I've always thought that the 38mm studs are too thin to centre boards on and screws can sometimes miss cos there is not enough meat to screw into and you have to screw far too close to the sheet edges.

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Master in action! I aspire to have your knowledge 👏👏👏👏

Will you be selling the t shirts and hoodies you wear as merchandise?

Nice video thanks Robin. I have 6 old floorboards running length of the landing. Can i use chipboard flooring instead of new floorboards?

Hi Robin, What do you put below the insulation. I am doing a project but worried about vermin getting into celotext insulation from under the structure.

great video as always sir. Can I ask a stupid question. DO you put any typeof covering on the underside of the wooden base?

nice big garden room ... wish all floors were this easy to do Curious, why go for top of the line chipboard when you can use 18mm OSB3? I guess this looks nicer but it's a subfloor so no-one will see it. The OSB is the same size, same if not greater strength and the same water resistance. Then if you are after water resistance same question about cement board. Why egger protect instead of a cement board ( Hardie or ever an insulated one ).

May I ask why is your insulation under the frame and not filling inside frame space? Is it because heat loss thru timber?

Robin clevett vs Jamie (perking brothers ) from America Your both superhuman lool

Hi There Robin I was wondering if you could help me out with some guidelines. I live in the Netherlands, and I am looking at doing the following: 1. Ripping out the Living Room floor and making sure that the room under the wooden floor is in order. 1.1 Going to change the piper work ready for a heat pump. 1.2 Going to lay network cables down. 1.3 Going to lay damp foil on the floor. Question: Is there anything else you would take the opportunity to do whilst the floor is totally open? So make the foundation under the floor airtight? Or Cement the bricks on the foundations to provide a better seal for the damp foil? 2. Want to insulate the floor. Questions: - Would you use Hard insulation board or Something like Rockwool. - Ventilation: Should the insulation be up against the chipboard floor or does there need to be a space of say 2 cm in between? - Do I need to use a vapour membrane on top of the insulation, before, I lay down the boarding across the joists? 3. Boarding up the joists Questions: - I have the original wooden planks, would you through these in favour of chipboard bording? We are going to install underfloor heating, just FYI. Thanks in advance for any tips advice :) cheers Mark

Why there is a gap between floor boards and insulation?thanks

Lovely to watch for a rough old trowel. I was thinking the other day when I was using my impact driver, what are the db's of impact drivers? I know you are very conscious of protecting your hearing. I fear for the scaffolders who use them all day on steel, the noise must be above safe limits. Perhaps a video?

Hi Robin, great video and a quick question. Can the D4 Egger glue be used on p5 chipboard that is not egger protect? I have bought p5 chipboard from wickes..

What kind of glue are you using and when / how to scrape off excess (on surface) later?

Can yo use 18mm on a small area, like a porch,

Installing the flooring like this means you can't put an EDPM over the floor base. How are you able to prevent moisture coming up to the flooring? Is it just via sealing the insulation to the base joists?

How do you deal with joist spacing that isn't as 'perfect' as this? I laid this flooring recently and the board ends never landed on a joist. It was a nightmare because there was 150mm celotex between the joists and not enough room to get support noggins in.

Quantity Surveyor just called, said £2.87 worth of glue dribbled down the joist sides, an unacceptable loss. 😁 Great job Robin, be ideal if we could build to material sizes more often, just makes life easier.👍

NHBC good making rules and regs, but piss poor at getting things put right, nice job, young lad seems keen 👏

If anyone can answer my questions would greatly appreciate the help. 1) Will start making similar floor to be used as gym. Which is stronger surface Egger Protect or same thickness structural Plywood with same fixings and adhesive? 2) Vapor barrier under floor or not and why? I've seen plenty videos for colder climate where they use vapor layer under floor etc...

Good vid! What’s the glue you’re using?

Also, is the max permissible Floor Joist centre 600mm? Or why did you pick that? Is there not a chance that this might causes some bowing?

Is it necessary to run two beads if most of up runs down the side of the joists?

Why would you not have boards falling on joists?

Is that Kronos pan chipboard

I don't really understand what the 10mm gap is for. Expansion? If so would there be much movement being glued and screwed? Or is the 10mm gap for something else.?

Robin would you be happy using this board under a kitchen?

I know its meant to be a 10mm expansion gap around all edges but I'm curious if this is necessary with everything being screwed and glued these days? Surely the movement is reduced by doing this?

Great work robin - attention to detail as always! I understand the NHBC recommendations, what are your thoughts on how easily services can be accessed? I often feel adaptability and sustainability is over looked by NHBC? Appreciate this comment is more relevant to new build houses than garden rooms though. Not a knock at your work by the way - just interested in your opinion on the regs. Cheers!

Shouldn’t bond the dwangs when joists shrink they will move with sheet and rub on joist making a noise.

I normally put white mastic in my tongue and grooves

Hi Robin, great vid, I have a question. I have always been told that the insulation should be kept tight to the underside of the floor boards, has this changed? Thanks keith

Hi Robin, i'm struggling to find any videos of you using plywood as a subfloor material. Apart from cost is there any reason to use chipboard over plywood given the number of complaints and advice an average DIYer stumbles across online? Best Regards