:searchingsign: 'Flooring' but mostly came up with ideas for using laminate flooring underlay under tracks. I am busy getting my new 12ft x 10ft shed ready to move my layout into. So far have got the ceiling/walls insulated with 25mm polystyrene sheeting and next job is to cover this with 9mm MDF. Going to insulate the floor as well and then cover the insulation with 11mm OSB.
Wondered what most people are using as floor covering - vinyl or carpet? Suppose there are pro's and con's for both. Carpet is warmer but easier to loose bits in.
Any views gratefully received.
ColinH
Hmm, sawdust, bits of broken / cut track, about 3 million coupling springs, offcuts of wire insulation, I will eventually finish tracklaying/wiring etc, then if I recall correctly there is a carpet underneath! :-[
How about the heavy duty Heuga tiles for the walk/sitting areas?
http://www.heuga.co.uk/Homepage-en (http://www.heuga.co.uk/Homepage-en) Lots of stores sell them.
From experience they're almost bomb proof and don't create dust. Perhaps a vinyl offcut for the under benches?
Dave G
Quote from: hairygit on November 10, 2013, 09:46:55 PM
Hmm, sawdust, bits of broken / cut track, about 3 million coupling springs, offcuts of wire insulation, I will eventually finish tracklaying/wiring etc, then if I recall correctly there is a carpet underneath! :-[
:laughabovepost:
You beat me to that one :P
I don't have a flooring problem as the layout is in my conservatory which has a tiled floor with underfloor heating. However, I still have the problem of things pinging/ricocheting around :laugh:
Don't have a train room so question is irrelevant. :D
(layout on portable board so I could run it anywhere with a power socket)
Green nylon carpet that I salvaged from work when they put new stuff down in the staff common room. Unfortunately the train room is also the garage, and when the car developed a major oil leak sometime ago, the oil has totally permeated the carpet. :(
My train room is fully lined and insulated and I put a commercial low profile carpet on the floor. It is a grey black pattern so while I may loose a bit or two it is very good under foot and easy to vacuum.
Well worth it when I sat on the floor to do the under board electrically, better then concrete!
Bart
Train room - flippin 'eck I wish! :laugh:
Paul
My train room is in the converted loft room. It has carpet and underlay which is great. However, the chipboard panels on the joists are definitely not done to building regulations and bend when you get near to to the end of a panel!!!! :o My wife may let me go in there again one day......... :'(
Coincidentally Mrs Flounder and I made this decision a couple of days ago for my railway room. We are going for a cheap light coloured carpet with medium quality underlay. The main reason over laminate and tiles is to soften some of the acoustics - music included. The colour is dictated by my habit of dropping things. :doh:
I have installed a heat/cool air conditioning system to maintain constant temperature, so the slight trade off will be the potential for more fibres to be caught in the filters from the carpet as opposed to a hard alternative.
The 4th bedroom, which I had to redecorate as part of the deal, has become known in the past few weeks as The Train Room. It is carpeted in 80/20 wool carpet the same as the whole upstairs of the house. It seems when we picked it many years ago (we don't let ANYONE wear shoes indoors) we had the fortitude to make it very pale creamy fawn with a widely spaced random brown fleck exactly the same Pantone as trimmed Peco track sleepers.
Quote from: hairygit on November 10, 2013, 09:46:55 PM
Hmm, sawdust, bits of broken / cut track, about 3 million coupling springs,
Quote from: Only Me on November 11, 2013, 07:25:00 AM
Mind tends to get covered in Farish springs
Tut tut, all these people still losing springs, you really should be gluing them to the coupling you know ;)
http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=6767.0 (http://www.ngaugeforum.co.uk/SMFN/index.php?topic=6767.0)
Paul
:laughabovepost:
Quote from: newportnobby on November 10, 2013, 11:17:34 PM
Quote from: hairygit on November 10, 2013, 09:46:55 PM
Hmm, sawdust, bits of broken / cut track, about 3 million coupling springs, offcuts of wire insulation, I will eventually finish tracklaying/wiring etc, then if I recall correctly there is a carpet underneath! :-[
:laughabovepost:
You beat me to that one :P
I don't have a flooring problem as the layout is in my conservatory which has a tiled floor with underfloor heating. However, I still have the problem of things pinging/ricocheting around :laugh:
I defiantly belong to this club :claphappy: :claphappy:
Quote from: hairygit on November 10, 2013, 09:46:55 PM
Hmm, sawdust, bits of broken / cut track, about 3 million coupling springs, offcuts of wire insulation, I will eventually finish tracklaying/wiring etc, then if I recall correctly there is a carpet underneath! :-[
Thanks for all the suggestions folks. In the light of the above I think I'll probably be best going for vinyl. It will be easier to tidy up and I should hear the gentle 'pin' of those springs and other bits that I really , really should not loose hitting the floor and bouncing out of sight for evermore.
ColinH
Quote from: hairygit on November 10, 2013, 09:46:55 PM
Hmm, sawdust, bits of broken / cut track, about 3 million coupling springs, offcuts of wire insulation, I will eventually finish tracklaying/wiring etc, then if I recall correctly there is a carpet underneath! :-[
Mines the same mostly bits of wire after the wiring job, managed to avoid dropping solder. There is a carpet somewhere underneath........
mostly my wife's clothing as my layout is in the corner of our bedroom. Cheers, Bill.
Oo-er! :goggleeyes:
If all her clothes are on the bedroom floor I'm surprised you can concentrate on the railway? :D
Paul
My railway room is half of a converted garage, Half became my workshop the other half a stable for a horse and a donkey. We got rid of the horse and donkey so now I've got both halves. The floor is dusty concrete but I've had ceramic tiles to put down for over a year! The plan is to insulate the floor and walls first but playing trains seems to have taken priority.
As far as disappearing springs etc goes I have a plan. First of all should we all invest in a pair of knee pads for all that grovelling around the floor? I find that particularly with springs if you use a torch to look for them even if your room is not particularly dark the torchlight reflects on the springs. Is it a step too far to wear one of the forehead lights? I suppose with headlights and knee pads we would be almost kitted out for a bit of potholing!
Dave
Add a magnet on a stick for finding the tiny metal escapees and you're equipped for almost every situation! :)
Dave G
Hi Dave (G),
I've got one of those magnetised trays for nuts bolts etc which I have considered working over but am concerned the magnet might effect the magnets in the loco. What do you think?
If we combined the torch and the magnet on a stick we could play Daleks!
I'd suggest that you keep the thing on stick away from anything precious!
Like the image of the Dalek! :thumbsup:
Dave G
Way off topic now but! When I was a kid I used to chase my younger sister around the house with my Dalek which she was terrified of. A couple of years ago year she bought me a a toy Dalek with shampoo in it. She couldn't bear to touch it so she bought a gift bag and asked the shop assistant to drop it in so it was ready for Christmas Day! I don't deserve a sister like her. I used to get her to put her tongue on the slot on my scalextric and then press the trigger. When she complained I put my tongue on but didn't press the trigger. Of course she had to try it again!!!. Never go to heaven will I? Mind you I wasn't all evil. I used to make her shops out of cardboard boxes and then cakes out of chocolate melted in the airing cupboard to sell in the shop. Is that enough for redemtion?
Quote from: ESPANTRAINFAN on November 16, 2013, 10:27:41 AM
I used to get her to put her tongue on the slot on my scalextric and then press the trigger. When she complained I put my tongue on but didn't press the trigger. Of course she had to try it again!!!. Never go to heaven will I? Mind you I wasn't all evil. I used to make her shops out of cardboard boxes and then cakes out of chocolate melted in the airing cupboard to sell in the shop. Is that enough for redemption?
I think the answer to your last question is 'NO!'.
What an evil trick - and I wish I had thought of that with my 2 sisters >:D :D