Carpets, Lino & Flooring

Bouncy floor on chipboards

Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 2.31 PM

Hello, I am having my floor replaced. There used to be a super cheap laminate, and the underlay looked like tin foil. I bought this laminate -> http://bit.ly/1ME0raj I asked my builders which underlay to get, they said "any" so I bought this -> http://bit.ly/1KSCivm Now, my builders have stripped out the old floor and placed the new one with the underlay and the floor is super bouncy. VERY VERY bouncy. The subfloor is made of what I think are called chipboards, which are not very stable. Now, the previous floor, super cheap and with no underlay, did not bounce or squeak at all. My builders say that it was because it was so thin and bendy that it followed the subfloor. In order to fix the problem, they have bought some kind of harder boards they put underneath the underlay, but I can still see the bounciness. What should the best solution be? I called quickstep and they said I should have bought this underlay instead -> http://bit.ly/1KmhqPb Would this solve the problem? Or is the only solution replace the chipboards with solid plywood? I am so mad because I'm spending so much money and I'm ending up with something worse than what I had before!