floor

Hello My wife and I currently have a builder insulating a suspended timber floor. The builder has put a membrane down called Protect A1, which I read online is non-breathable. Will this be a problem? There’s still ventilation on the side where the membrane hangs down. Is there anything I can...

Right, I will try to be brief but I really don't want to cause issues later with condensate and associated damage to timbers / mould etc. Competent DIY'er but just cautious. Photo attached for reference. Please excuse the primitive drawing, it's clearly not to scale!! So we live in a two story...

I need to raise the height of the concrete porch floor. It’s 1.7m by 1.3m and is currently about 70mm below the height of the rest of the house, but this does vary a little bit. The tiles and adhesive that I’m going to fit will take up about 13mm, so need to raise it between 50 and 60mm. I was...

We are covering our garage and have painted a liquid DPM. We then plan on adding 50mm of celotex to the floor, with some timber supports in places around doors and where gym equipment will be as we've read this is suggested. We can't seem to find any specific details though on how we construct...

Hello, I have 150sq.m of liquid screed floor (70mm thick, poured about 3 months ago, laitance removed) with liquid UFH (first switched on - low heat - yesterday!), and I'm planning to install an engineered hardwood floor over it. I've had a couple of conflicting opinions from fitters: Fitter 1...

Hi, Long term reader, first time poster here. I've recently moved in to a ground floor flat in a Victorian house. The floor in one of the rooms was particularly squeaky so I decided to have a look over the weekend. This is what I found underneath, below the carpet and the 18mm plywood floor. No...

Hello - I have hit a bit of a problem renovating my bathroom, the subfloor is rotten by the wall and the damaged piece of subfloor runs underneath the stud wall (isn’t damaged on the other side of the wall) would anyone be able to recommend the best way to fix this? it’s eventually going to be...

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! We have recently had bifold doors installed along with a new wooden step, however this has led to a gap between the floor and the step which is filled with expanding foam (the previous owners didn’t do a great job installing the flooring). What would be the best way to fill this? I was...

Hi there! I'm new to the forum, and i wanted to get some advice. Several years ago, I helped my parents make an epoxy coated pebble patio for her back yard and the end result was absolutely gorgeous, and held up surprisingly well even through loads of rain (and one earthquake). I'm going to be...

Hello, I have attempted to lay my extension sand and cement screed. On the whole it is not a total disaster however it is 20mm higher in one corner (in comparison to the opposite corner 5 metres away). Is there any way I can sand/grind this section down? Unfortunately self levelling compound...

We are renovating our ground floor kitchen in Edwardian (1930s) house in London. No extensions/structural/notifiable (as far as we know) work planned, just new flooring and kitchen units. Whilst pulling up the old kitchen and flooring, the builder has highlighted that the current flooring is...

We live in a new build (2015) and have recently discovered rainwater has been entering under the floor via the phoneline/broadband duct. The green box is at a higher elevation and the duct didn't have either sufficient drainage or wasn't sealed properly when the property was built meaning it...

Hi, We took up the flooring on a house we've recently moved into (5 different layers of laminate and lino!) to find the floorboards and joists pretty rotten in places. We're going to replace all the joists and wall plates on top of the sleeper walls, but try and keep as many of the old...

Hi (again) All Continuing the ongoing summerhouse saga, we are now into the final stages. The oak plank flooring is fitted, and next week I will be sanding them down ready for finishing. These are solid oak planks. The walls will be clad in unfinished pine T&G ( may well be washed or painted at...

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 have a utility room with a concrete floor. When it rains I've noticed the floor gets wet. Right outside this room are two drains - one is for the kitchen sink and boiler/washing machine waste trap and the other is for the guttering drain pipe from the utility room. There is also another hole...

Hi, I’m laying Click LVT to my kitchen and downstairs hallway - about 15m2 in total. I have an old concrete floor to lay on but where it’s been latexes over the years, there is some slight undulation peaks/troughs. I’m also over laying some old asbestos floor tiles in the hall. Is there a...

Hi, I'm renovating my upstairs bathroom and have taken the walls back the the brick, and replaced the ceiling with PIR + new plasterboard. I will be replacing the existing floorboards with 18mm plywood but I'm unsure whether I should: 1. Plasterboard the walls, then underfloor plumbing, then...

We've had a bit of a nightmare with getting a floor that is suitable for a level finish (carpet tiles in our case) which has dragged on since August. Our extension, internal dimensions 9.7m by 5.1m, has a block and beam construction. The room is going to hold a full size snooker table at one...