Recent content by ho66

Thanks, interesting point. I thought I only had the bitumen dpm in the kitchen because that's the only place where I had seen it, maybe we didn't dig deep enough in other rooms. It's too late to check the other rooms now. Anyway, I'm really only worried about the kitchen because that's where I...

Sorry for the stupid question, but what would have been the correct way to do this? In case it changes things, it wasn't just a few mm of self-levelling compound, it was maybe 3cm or so, so still a quite solid layer.

The plastic sheet is tiny, I think their point was that the self-levelling compound would be too thin to hold it down properly. And yes, they also removed the tarry layer.

Thank you that's good to know. Probably we'll just accept it and move on and hope that it doesn't get much worse over time. To answer the people who pointed out that I should have stopped them before the kitchen was installed, I understand the point, but I believe it was a lot more level at...

No, it is LVT clicking floor, so the panels are connected with each other but they are not glued to the screed.

It is. What should I expect to happen?

This is what we're considering, would it be crazy to remove the kitchen and fix the issue? The end result just isn't good. I know that this will be a huge cost which I will have to pay myself, I won't reclaim anything from the builder, it won't be possible to get anything from the cowboy without...

Thanks! Yes, the kitchen had the black, tarry coating. This was against damp, right? When the subcontractors removed this stuff, we asked them what it is that they're removing, they didn't know but said it had to go to bring the kitchen to a similar level as the rest. This made sense but, in...

Thanks for the replies! Answers: > He poured floor levelling compound directly onto a plastic sheet? :confused: Yes. I didn't know how it's done, I trusted that he knows how to do the job. He claimed to have lots of experience and showed pictures etc. > How old is the house? Around 90 years...

A plastic sheet.

Yes, it's too late, but how bad is this? I haven't yet paid them in full and want to figure out what's fair. Most of the ground floor didn't seem to have DPM's before and it was fine, so I would expect the kitchen to be ok at least for some years? The builder says that there was no space for a...

Builder installed a new LVT flooring on the ground floor. To do this, he removed the old hardwood floor. Under the kitchen floor was some sort of very old damp proofing, which he removed as well. He then put DPM's at around half of the ground floor, but not the other half, claiming that there is...