[Shop-talk] Putting floor in attic - can't fit 4x8 sheets

Shannah Miller shannahquilts at gmail.com
Sun May 27 22:40:07 MDT 2012


Yeah, I totally agree: if you really want T&G, routing your own seems
like a reasonable idea, especially if you can dedicate a router to this
job for the duration.

On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 9:02 PM, BJNoSHOV8 <bjshov8 at tx.rr.com> wrote:
> What spans do you have between joists, what thickness of plywood were you
> planning, and what type of use are you planning for the floor?
>
> At first I was wondering why you would need T&G, but the answers to the
> questions above would help to define that.  And then I thought that if you
> really wanted T&G you could just set up a router and after ripping the
> plywood to 2' widths you could add your own T&G.
>
>
>> The way the house is constructed I can't get a 4x8 sheet into the attic. I
>> can
>> do a 4x4 and with some effort a 2x8, but none of those are t&g.
>>
>> Any options out there besides using some kind of Simpson Tie in place of
>> the
>> t&g edge support?
>
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