Hi all I've bought a new house and having nightmares with floors.
Mostly carpeted with felt underlay which doesn't radiate any heat at all. I decided to tackle 1 room at a time. ..a friend removed carpet screeds floor expensive karndean floor. .heating then really works but realise floor is about as level as north Sea. asked to come back to resolve refused sub floor is asphalt so it's the problem. 700 quid in at this point.
Next guy comes along says he will take up karndean screed properly make it level and re lay the karndean..so I thought this was solution he starts getting it up said it was not primed right or screed right the first time so all the screed is now stuck to karndean instead of sub floor. .basically karndean is now scrap as impossible to reuse it due to how much is stuck to it.
So I'm 900 quid into this as it's been screeded again now and I now need to buy another new floor.
I wonder if the asphalt sub floor is so bad will anyone be able to get it level or am I ****ing in the wind.
Can I lay ceramics or engineered wood onto the screeded asphalt. ..it has wet ufh beneath this . and would this be best way to get it flat?
Lifting the floors in other rooms I realise all the asphalt floors are just wonky . .now no spec from builder, but I do wonder if it's even suitable product to have above ufh and will just soften and move regardless.
Would appreciate some help as losing the will to live here and endless bills.
Mostly carpeted with felt underlay which doesn't radiate any heat at all. I decided to tackle 1 room at a time. ..a friend removed carpet screeds floor expensive karndean floor. .heating then really works but realise floor is about as level as north Sea. asked to come back to resolve refused sub floor is asphalt so it's the problem. 700 quid in at this point.
Next guy comes along says he will take up karndean screed properly make it level and re lay the karndean..so I thought this was solution he starts getting it up said it was not primed right or screed right the first time so all the screed is now stuck to karndean instead of sub floor. .basically karndean is now scrap as impossible to reuse it due to how much is stuck to it.
So I'm 900 quid into this as it's been screeded again now and I now need to buy another new floor.
I wonder if the asphalt sub floor is so bad will anyone be able to get it level or am I ****ing in the wind.
Can I lay ceramics or engineered wood onto the screeded asphalt. ..it has wet ufh beneath this . and would this be best way to get it flat?
Lifting the floors in other rooms I realise all the asphalt floors are just wonky . .now no spec from builder, but I do wonder if it's even suitable product to have above ufh and will just soften and move regardless.
Would appreciate some help as losing the will to live here and endless bills.