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Hi all. I had a squeaky uneven upstairs bedroom floor that seemed to go downhill at one end. I removed old t&g floor to find the room straddled the wall between utility room and the garage. The top of the breeze blocks being higher than the top of the joists. So am now a bit puzzled as to how to...

I have sound insulated my wooden floor using MuteMat 3 and the flanking strip that comes with it. However my contractor left a part which is not part of the wall (therefore there is no skirting board) that touches the wardrobe without the strip, and I realized the other day that there is light...

Hey all I'm in the process of renovating the living room of our 1900 built Victorian end-terrace. When I went into the project, I knew that I'd probably find some issues with the floor as there were a few soft spots. I'd also planned to pull and replace all of the floorboards in order to...

I'm putting a horned threshold(cill) in the bottom of a new door frame, because there's a step down from the hallway. And I'd like tiles in the hall, to back of cill. Do 330x300 floor tile thicknesses vary much? What is standard grout thickness? I need to set the cill top at the right...

Hi everyone. I recently posted about the flooring in my bathroom. Previous owner states there was some water damage leading to swelling of the floor. I have noticed over the past few months that the swelling is extending, particularly along the seams. I am not very good with DIY, so I am...

ive had a leaking sink waste for some time, only just found out. The ground floor is completely tiled and laminate floor and I am wondering whether it would be better to be part carpeted to help it breathe more ? Thanks

Hi, I am laying a new laminate floor in one of the bedrooms and have just lifted the old carpet and had my first look of the tongue and groove flooring. Some of the tongue and groove joints are very loose and when walked on sag and cause the floor to creak slightly - in the extreme cases the...

I have some floor trim/beading to go around my new laminate floor, but I'm struggling to get a nice 45° degree angle. I have a mitre saw which has 45° setting but the trim is not flat so I can't get the angle to be flush. Skotia edge by barnsley7 posted 8 Dec 2019 at 3:18 PM Skotia trim by...

Hi, My partner and I are having an extension on the back of our house and we would like UFH throughout the downstairs. Most UFH systems I have found aren’t the best for wooden floorboards and the floor height would raise substantially, so I was wondering about the feasibility of replacing the...

Hey peopleses, I'm sorry for asking, I have Googled this loads and haven't found a good answer. I have recently installed engineered wood floor over a padded acoustic underlay. This was recommended to me by the shop (UK Flooring Direct) as I'm using it upstairs. Once installed though...

Hi I’m removing ceramic floor tiles from my bathroom and looking for advice on preparing the surface. I didn’t know what was under the old tiles till I started but seems like it’s 12mm OSB on top of original floorboards. The tiles coming off have left a mess of tile cement and some of the...

I’m looking at this UFH solution for an upcoming project on suspended timber floors. https://www.omnie.co.uk/torfloor/ It’s the only solution I’ve found which gives a low floor build up and is designed to replace the structural floor. It comprises a routed 22mm chipboard sheet with a foil...

Hi all, My bathroom floor has these lumps developing under the flooring. I first posted about it a few months ago and it seems to have extended. The flooring is raised further along the join of the tile and some thick, sticky brown material has come up. I believe this could be glue? I have...

Hi, I hope someone can help? I’ve moved into a 60s house which has not been kept up to date, and whatever has been done looks like it was always done on the cheap. I recently removed the flooring as it was rotten through due to a leaking sink. Underneath the rotten plywood was a concrete floor...

So, after starting a job today it soon turned into something else so thought I'd get the views of people on here. I live in a 1840's stone built end terrace. The previous owner has converted the basement but it leaks and the walls are often damp so it clearly hasn't worked. I'd love to rip...

Hi, I've just taken up some big horrible flags out of my kitchen that were laid on an inch or so of cement (still to do under kitchen units). I plan to put laminate down but the surface is going to need levelling. There is a concrete section, boarded section (little uneven) and some channels...

I am taking up our kitchen floor. It has big flags down layed on cement. I found out part of the floor underneath is concrete, part is boarded, then there is an area struggling to take the cement up. It's not coming up well and I'm not hitting a floor. I've hit this black stuff? It looks like...

So I'm painting our awful floorboards with some chalk paint, and want to varnish over the top for a satin finish. Can I use any varnish (like Ronseal satin) over the top or does it absolutely have to be the floor varnish - which costs 4 times as much! The regular varnish has directions which say...

Hello everyone! Hope you are all having a nice start to your weekend. I would really appreciate if anyone could give me some advice. A structural engineer conducted a report on the building next door in 2017 and said the building was in need of remedial work to reinstate the structural...

Hello, I will be refurbishing a 1960s house and am considering what aspects of the plumbing might need changing, there's a couple of points in particular I would appreciate advice with. Some of the pipework looks like it might be 50 years old, other bits look like they were changed more...