Hello, first post so please be gentle.
We have a 1930's semi that has a (known) ground floor issue. We've lived with it for 6 years, as we had different things to spend our money on (re-wire, new central heating etc) when we moved in.
Anyway, to cut a long story short here are the issues. Back end of the house is concrete floor, covered with old tiles, covered with lino/carpet (Kitchen/dining/living room is open plan swept around one wall if that makes sense?). This adjoins a suspended timber floor of around 16M squared at the front half of the house, which has been covered with 3/4 inch ply to raise the level and make good to meet the level of the concrete floor.
We had a slight damp issue when we moved in (laminate floor on top of floorboards with a layer of damp proof plastic in between - alarm bells were ringing for possible damp issues and any other idiotic DIY jobs done around the house!!) which coupled with two blocked air bricks caused the subsequent joists to sweat a bit. On removal of the offending floorboards, it was discovered that at the front of the house, the joists had been cut and removed from the wall with the wall having a rubber membrane attached to it (i'm led to believe this is a form of tanking?). Again, alarm bells were ringing now about a more permanent issue with damp/condensation - subsequent checks throughout the last 6 years have found it to be dry thankfully.
The tiled floor in the kitchen / dining area is uneven where it joins the timber floor and the timber floor slopes ever so slightly.
Onto the advice bit. How would you begin to attack this issue? We are about to do some other work with the fireplace and thought this would be a good time to do something about it.
My initial thoughts were to rip up the tiles in the dining area and make good with a screed finish and to totally rip up the wooden floor to have a proper look/see to assess how it could be levelled.
How would you do it as i'm a DIY novice in terms of this level of work. More than happy to farm it out to a builder, in which case what roughly would be a good price to do this work?
We have a 1930's semi that has a (known) ground floor issue. We've lived with it for 6 years, as we had different things to spend our money on (re-wire, new central heating etc) when we moved in.
Anyway, to cut a long story short here are the issues. Back end of the house is concrete floor, covered with old tiles, covered with lino/carpet (Kitchen/dining/living room is open plan swept around one wall if that makes sense?). This adjoins a suspended timber floor of around 16M squared at the front half of the house, which has been covered with 3/4 inch ply to raise the level and make good to meet the level of the concrete floor.
We had a slight damp issue when we moved in (laminate floor on top of floorboards with a layer of damp proof plastic in between - alarm bells were ringing for possible damp issues and any other idiotic DIY jobs done around the house!!) which coupled with two blocked air bricks caused the subsequent joists to sweat a bit. On removal of the offending floorboards, it was discovered that at the front of the house, the joists had been cut and removed from the wall with the wall having a rubber membrane attached to it (i'm led to believe this is a form of tanking?). Again, alarm bells were ringing now about a more permanent issue with damp/condensation - subsequent checks throughout the last 6 years have found it to be dry thankfully.
The tiled floor in the kitchen / dining area is uneven where it joins the timber floor and the timber floor slopes ever so slightly.
Onto the advice bit. How would you begin to attack this issue? We are about to do some other work with the fireplace and thought this would be a good time to do something about it.
My initial thoughts were to rip up the tiles in the dining area and make good with a screed finish and to totally rip up the wooden floor to have a proper look/see to assess how it could be levelled.
How would you do it as i'm a DIY novice in terms of this level of work. More than happy to farm it out to a builder, in which case what roughly would be a good price to do this work?
