The timber flooring is best suited for buildings on hill stations or in localities where the climate is damp. However timber flooring is used carpentry halls, dancing halls, auditoriums, etc., The timber flooring is not much used for ground floors in India. In this type of flooring, the prevention of dampness is most important and hence all possible measures should be taken to check the dampness from rising above.

The entire area of the building below the ground floor of timber is covered with an impervious material in order to prevent dampness. This material may be either cement concrete or asphalt. Generally, a 15 cm layer of concrete known as oversite concrete, is placed all over the bed, and DPC (Damp proofing courses) are inserted throughout the width of the wall immediately below the wall plate.

Timber flooring essentially consists of boarding supported on timber joists called bridging joists or floor joists, which are nailed to the wall plates at their ends. In case of large rooms, where the distance between the wall is considerable, intermediate walls, called sleeper or dwarf walls, are constructed to support the joiss along their length. Longitudinal timber members called 'sleeper plates', are fixed on the top of sleeper walls and the timber joists are secured to the sleeper walls by nailing to the sleeper wall plates.

The hollow space between the flooring and the oversite concrete is kept dry and fully ventilatedby keeping openings in the main walls above the ground level.