What have you used to cover the floor of your train room?

[ColinH]

  '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

[hairygit]

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!

[daveg]

How about the heavy duty Heuga tiles for the walk/sitting areas?

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

[Newportnobby]

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!

You beat me to that one
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

[Agrippa]

Don't have a train room so question is irrelevant. 

(layout on portable board so I could run it anywhere with a power socket)

[Bealman]

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. 

[1936ace]

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

[Sprintex]

Train room - flippin 'eck I wish!


Paul

[Tank]

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!!!!     My wife may let me go in there again one day.........   :'(

[Flounder]

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. 

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.

[ParkeNd]

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.

[Sprintex]

Hmm, sawdust, bits of broken / cut track, about 3 million coupling springs,

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


Paul

[Bealman]

 

[jonclox]

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!

You beat me to that one
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

I defiantly belong to this club 

[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!

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