timber floor

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...

I moved into a house that had a hidden leak. I stopped the leak and replaced the affected floor joists and boards. Months later the smell remains, but there are no visible signs of concern. Is this normal? Do I need to treat surrounding wood to prevent smell? What's going on?

We are beginning a garage conversion and need to achieve a U-Value of 0.22 with the floor. The suggestion to achieve this is 100mm Celotex insulation. The existing floor to ceiling is 248cm but at the front of the garage its slightly lower at 237cm. I believe building the 100mm Celotex floor...

Hello I have a standard Vic Terrace property where many of the floors are warped (and bouncy) and Im trying to work out the best solution to levelling and firming them up. There are 2 rooms per floor, supported in the middle by a timber spine wall - bricks at either end. To make matters more...

I need to lay engineered board on top of concrete which is over old foundations. It's a strip about 500mm wide, then a step to one side and the original timber flooring on the other. The majority of it is very old concrete, some more recent where a wall was recently demolished and levelled...

I need to replace the odd floorboard of the base timber flooring in my Victorian house. What specs should I look for in the board? I will measure the width and thickness. It's not tongue and groove. Thanks

Question is about how to lay the floor sheets of a timber summerhouse I am starting to design and whether to 'trap' them below the stud walls. One thing I don't like with all the designs I see is that the perimeter stud walls are built on top of the floor sheet. In my mind I prefer the future...

I am having a plated underfloor heating system installed between the joists of my suspended timber floor throughout the house, so, I was wondering what the best subfloor type is to lay over the joists when the UFH has been installed. So the floor joists are at roughly 450mm centres which is...

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...

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 Guys, I already posted that question on tilers forum, but got no answer so far... We (my wife) has an idea about swapping kitchen and a living room... I got no problem with plumbing and electrics but she also want tiles and UFH in the new kitchen. The current floor is wooden and...

Hi there, Firstly I'm new to this forum, so apologies if I've not posted in the correct place etc. Any advice on the following would be much appreciated: I'm building a garden office 4.8w x 2.4d x 2.5h. The concrete base is already done (about 80mm on top of hardcore, mot and dpm, no sand...

Hi, I'm renovating an old 2 up 2 down terrace house and need to replace the downstairs timber floor. An old extension on the back blocked the rear bricks (this is going to be replaced) and as such under the floor the mud is damp and wet causing the old floorboards and joists to rot. A builder...

Hi. I've recently lifted the carpet which the previous owner installed in my house. To my surprise, there were some really nice looking floorboards. My wife would like them sanded and varnished. Unfortunately, I found some spindly arms apparently growing up between some boards. At a glance...

We have built an extension and had the base built for us ~ the usual layers of hardcore, sand, DPC, rigid insulation, more DPC and poured concrete. Because we want a 'traditional' timber floor, we allowed for joists and floorboards. At last inspection BCO said we needed air-bricks to ventilate...

I am proposing to build a small (4mx3m) single story extension to my 1960's bungalow. Access will be through an existing external window converted to a door opening. I obviously need to continue the existing FFL through to the extension and as such it would make things easier to use a suspended...