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Hi all, Any information or help with this would be really appreciated. My wife and I just bought an old council flat, 50s construction, on an upper storey. The floor is a concrete slab, there's another flat beneath it. Neighbour says that flats used to be floored with tiles throughout, is...

I have this hatch in my floor and i am about to apply wooden floor. The floor is 1,1 cm/11 mm tall and i want to find a solution so the gap between the hatch and the flooring wont be that big. The hatch opens over halfway - over 90° which also means that the gap gets even bigger. But it seems...

Hiya, I've just bought a place and it's got no alarm system. I urgently require a wired alarm that I can install myself to cover the whole of ground floor as well as the garage. I have some basic education of installing an alarm, but I'd rather be sceptical and say that I know very little...

So I have a very creaky set of floorboards. My plan is to take carpets up, remove nails, screw down (avoiding plumbing electric etc), lay 3.2mm hardboard (aware of wetting, etc), nail down with 20mm ring nails and put the carpet back down. My questions are about the edges and the thresholds...

Hey Guys - recently moved house and discovered a circular hole on my lounge floor? No idea what it is but it leads to plastic tubing which at this point have no idea where it goes or what the purpose is! I have attached photos for your comments/views. Could this be where a radiator once...

Hi, I have a fairly even concrete floor (about 120 sq meter) but has some damage to it at places where the top chippings have come off in a couple of places (about 20mm deep), but in total this damaged area is just about 2 sq meter in the whole floor. anyhow I am planing on ordering slc but...

Evening all, Probably a stupid question to people in the know but i have hit a brick wall when trying to work out what my floor is made of. Its a 1940's ex council house. What i'm after knowing is: what are these tiles? What is their purpose? Do i need them? I only ask so i don't go taking...

Hi, I am debating to use the current newley laid plywood floor as the finished surface in a small ofifice. Idea is to sand and stain the ply using polyurethane varnish with 3-4 coats. It will be a medium to heavy use area so concerned about the viablity of this solution. Total area is 18sq...

Hi, I recently bought a new Hoover 'frost-free' fridge freezer. In a nutshell, water drains from inside the fridge onto the floor at the back of the unit. Now everything appears to be working as it should (it's only been in use for a week) but looking at the back of the unit, it appears that...

Hello, I've just moved in to a new house this week. I'm really keen to get all the cardboard boxes with "attic" written on them into the attic, but after having my first peek up there yesterday, I'm not sure the boxes are headed up there as fast as I'd hoped. I've taken some pictures, but they...

Hello, I'm wondering if you can get a floor levelling compound which you can screw or nail into? Something which cures to a wood-like consistancy? If so, can anyone suggest the products? Thanks!

Hi. Renovating a single room extension (c1980s I believe) attached to a c1800 stone house. I intend to install a laminate floor, and because of some undulations need to level the existing base. When lifting carpet grippers (tacked down but also glued in places) parts of the floor lifted with...

Hi, I've searched the forums but cannot find an answer to this specific question. I have a 1960s bungalow that I'm refurbishing. Ground floor was: Ash solum on earth, sealed (badly) with bitumen. Suspended floor joists with tongue and groove timber flooring (void below floor is ventilated). I...

Hi I've opened up my fireplace and installed a lintel ready for the installation of a 5KW, 85KG log burner. As I got down to floor level I noticed it was very damp, so I removed the quarry tiles and found soil. I am intending to hammer in some hardcore lay some DPM and fill the 3 inch void...

Hi guys, Hope you're all in good form :) My latest project in the house is leveling (and then covering with laminate flooring) my garage concrete floor. I think the best bet would be leveling compound as it's pretty uneven in parts. I have a couple of problems though: (Please see pictures...

Hello, I'm looking at buying an old Victorian house, irca 1890. Its in a row and is attached to houses either side. It has a few issues, but the most worrying one is sagging of the living room ceiling, and corresponding sagging of the floor above. I'd like to know what the most likely reason...

Thought I'd start my own discussion thread. This has no particular motive, I'm just curoius what people think! OK, I am guilty of sometimes deriding modern materials as 'naff' and 'not as good as the real thing', but when it comes to tiled floors, I am puzzled. These days you can buy vinyl...

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'm just sorting out joist spacing for a ground floor suspended timber floor. I'll be using some of the original floorboards, and will need to replace some. I'm intending to mix them around and sand the lot. I don't mind a bit of a patchwork effect. They will be 22mm, a mixture of widths. I'm...

Hi Guys We've just completed an extension and are now looking at our flooring options. We're considering either Karndean flooring or an engineered wooden floor. My question is how should be prep the current floor (see pics attached) as there is a slight different between the height of the...