Evening gents,
For those of you who have followed, I recently completed a largely self built, certainly project managed rear extension. I went with a suspended timber floor with oversight concrete mix. The floor itself is made up of joists, chip board flooring with 22mm solid oak above this.
All looks great, but damn the floor in the extension gets cold with cold weather. When I say cold, it can't be much warmer than the concrete outside tonight. I don't understand, as with all that timber I really would have expected it to be more insulated and kept warm from inside heat.
No chance of lifting any flooring now, any suggestions? I know this seems extreme, but What about drilling a few holes through the two skins below joist level and pumping full of cavity insulation. I had thought of the little polystyrene balls, which could be sucked out if needed.
Anyway, this may seem ridiculous, but just after thoughts. Ive even thought of a radiator of sort under the flooring. Just a bit bummed after so much hard work.
For those of you who have followed, I recently completed a largely self built, certainly project managed rear extension. I went with a suspended timber floor with oversight concrete mix. The floor itself is made up of joists, chip board flooring with 22mm solid oak above this.
All looks great, but damn the floor in the extension gets cold with cold weather. When I say cold, it can't be much warmer than the concrete outside tonight. I don't understand, as with all that timber I really would have expected it to be more insulated and kept warm from inside heat.
No chance of lifting any flooring now, any suggestions? I know this seems extreme, but What about drilling a few holes through the two skins below joist level and pumping full of cavity insulation. I had thought of the little polystyrene balls, which could be sucked out if needed.
Anyway, this may seem ridiculous, but just after thoughts. Ive even thought of a radiator of sort under the flooring. Just a bit bummed after so much hard work.
