concrete floor

Hi all, I’m in the process of widening the doorway to a cupboard on a block wall so that I can fit in a washing machine. For your info, the property dates back to 1880 and the single storey extension was likely added in the early 1900’s. I’ve cut away enough of the block work to accommodate...

I am renovating our kitchen and dining room in an old Victorian property. The floorboards look good and I want to restore them, which I'm totally ok with, but there are small areas (eg. around the old fireplace and at an extension area) where there's concrete floor. I was thinking of tiling...

Hi all, I have a question regarding retrofitting services when concrete floors have already been laid (water, elec, gas). I am undertaking some works on a partially completed barn conversion. The floors have been laid (MOT, DPM, insulation, concrete slab), but no service ducts were installed...

Hello, I have recently moved into a 4 bed 1970's detached house. The house has been extended 2 or 3 different times. The down stairs has a solid concrete floor (which current heating pipes are burried in). In the original house the pipes are steel and in the extensions they are copper. I have...

Hi, I laid Mapei self levelling compound in my kitchen and hall Wednesday morning but it still seems like areas are still damp/ not fully dry. They are hard to touch and feel the same as the other areas but are of a darker colour. They also don’t seem to be improving with a fan/heat. Reckon...

I'm just posting a few questions on here to see if people can help me. The house I bought is around 1850 and half of the flooring is concrete with wooden joists embedded into the concrete and the other half is a void. I've attached a few photos to help explain this. As the joists are embedded...

We recently discovered that ground floor living room of our Victorian terrace house is a concrete slab, under which is a layer of DPM, then sand, then soil. When we opened it up, we were expecting to find a suspended timber floor, with a void providing ventillation (this is what the neighbours...

I have recently purchased a house with an old extension, leading up to the extension the floor is suspended and the back 2 metre of the house is concrete. The concrete seems dry with no signs of damp and previously they had T&G chipboard screwed directly to the the concrete with laminate on top...

Hi I am currently considering converting my ground floor (suspended timber) into a solid insulated concrete floor for UF heating. The depth from the top of the joists to the bottom of the void (concrete) is 10" I already have a plan to tackle most of the conversion but I'm unsure about what to...

Hi All, I am doing a kitchen extension. 3m X 6m, and like to install wet ufh. need help to decide the best way to prepare my concrete subfloor for wet ufh. option 1: mot + sand blinding + dpm + kingspan + dpm+ concrete + ufh boards (18mm) + ufh pipes + screed + tiles option 2: mot + sand...

Had a new single story extension built. It's got a concrete floor and block inner wall. It was made watertight at the beginning of March and heating installed at the start of April. It had DPM and insulation installed and passed off by BC. The floor is still very damp in places and the...

I've just got up the old carpets on our renovation project, and weirdly the kitchen floor is mostly quarry tiles, except for the back third of the room being concrete. Unfortunately the floor is level throughout, so we can't just put tiles on top of the concrete to fix it. I'm imagining we just...

Hello We removed old vinyl tiles from our bathroom floor and scraped it as much as we could. It's still left the old adhesive in some patches. It's quite thin though. Is it ok to tile over using porcelain tiles or do we need to prep it further?

I am currently in the process of zhuzhing up my garage, we had vinyl rolls covering the concrete floor before. I removed it the other day to be met with little lumps of black charcoal/tarmac looking specks in the concrete. It wasn’t stuck down with adhesive so it's not residue from adhesive...

https://imgur.com/5hQTolF For info it's a terraced house, gas pipes to the meter are in this space. Cupboard under stairs was full of stuff, mostly standing on the floor. I noticed salt crystals on lower bricks and paint flaking, also mold on outer walls (left). I should have taken a before...

Hello I'd like to relocate the radiator in my lounge to the other side of the room which has a concrete floor. The is no neat or easy way to reach the other side of the room by running pipes around the walls, so I was wondering if it is viable to cut a channel in the concrete floor and hide the...

I recently purchased a 1907 mid-terrace house which unfortunately has cement render to the rear exterior. The kitchen needs re-plastering as there is a lot of crumbling and damage to the kitchen walls on one side. (The other side has Artex) The kitchen floor is a mixture of concrete and raised...

In a complete bathroom rebuild, my bath has just been replaced in its old spot (well, the new shower enclosure is 30cm wider so it is 30cm to one side of its old spot). They have put the bath's feet on bricks so they could attach the waste - so the whole is now at least 7cm higher than it used...

Hi, I recently had a visit from a guy off my builder and was told that to get rid of the damp in the walls i must replace the concrete floor in each room for a timber one seeing as this once was a property that once had a timber floor throughout. I asked if it was possible just to run a channel...

hi all, I have trawled through the threads to no avail, if I have missed something please forgive me but after days of searching I’m seeking advice. I am at the start of converting existing garage into a living room. BC have been informed and a structural engineer has done his job. Firstly...