Wooden floorboards

[gingerhousecat]

Trying to decide whether to sand the floorboards in the backroom and bedroom. Boards are all in quite nice condition...but does it make the rooms cold? Is it a really bad idea for the bedroom with noise etc

And what do you do with the skirting and the floor not joining? (the gap I mean)

Pictures welcome!

We had our dining room floor done last year and are getting the bedroom done next week. Yes it is noisier in the room underneath downstairs (manky carpet already gone) but doesnt bother us. You can get rolls of black squishy stuff called weatherstrip to push between floor and skirting. Gaps between boards have been filled too. Doesnt seem colder the carpet but probably depends on the house. I still chose carpet seem the living room as I spend a lot of time sitting on that floor and wood isn't so inviting for that.

How do you fill the gaps between floorboards?

One of ours is done with a kind of paste, the other and better with small slivers of wood.

Ah thanks, didn't even know it was possible! Is it a DIY possibility or a tradesman?

Apparently filling the gaps can done with a wallpaper /sawdust mix as a diy job coz the guy we bought our old house off had done it. Putting the wood strips in looked harder but not impossible.

Interesting, thank you!

We did it in our last house with a small handheld belt sander. It was a small room though.

We have floorboards in the bedroom. I've plugged the gaps with cork.
Noise wise it's fine. I have a couple of rugs each side of the bed.
I mop them with tea, brings them up lovely.

We have exposed floor boards throughout down stairs, and I needed to put a large rug down in the living room. Don't get me wrong they are lovely, they are pale oak, but it was too hard and cold to live with bare wood in reality. Unlike laminate there is no give, it's just hard wood. Just walking on them felt cold and hard in the winter in the morning and I couldn't live with the lack of comfort. A rug has broken it up and although you still get the effect, the honest truth is it's warmer and softer.

I think if you're not wearing your shoes upstairs noise wouldn't be so bad, but I don't think I'd want to get out of bed in the morning and put my feet on bare wood. Carpet or a rug does feel softer and warmer under foot.

We have carpet throughout ipstairs apart from the bathroom and stairs to third floor and I wouldn't have bare floorboards. The reality is it's quite harsh under foot.