suspended timber floor

I am insulating the ground floor of our Victorian house, have the floor up now and cleared rubble etc below to leave a nice space for ventilation below the floor joists. My question is should I cover the ground soil with anything like a layer of plastic or should I just rely on the ventilation...

Hello all, just a fun question really (well for me). I've been crawling around under my timber floor looking at pipes, unblocking airbricks, you know normal stuff for a bloke to do. It's particularly fun because my 4 year old daughter runs around above me asking me periodically where I am...

Please help. Never done a timber floor so all help appreciated. The garage is 254cm wide. I will use 45x125mm c24 timber in 2.4m lengths. I will mount ledger boards to the two longest opposing walls. If I mount just one ledger board to both walls I will have a span of 245cm. A 245cm gap will...

Hi I took my carpet up and I am in the process of sending my floor boards but the room is noticeably colder. There is a draft coming up through the floor boards and I have a decent sized crawl space to put some kind of insulation under there. I was thinking easiest would de just get under there...

Hi all, I'm currently renovating a ground floor suspended timber floor of a Victorian semi. I've just started removing a constructional hearth that was in front of a bricked-up fireplace, but after removing the concrete slab I realise that the earth underneath seems to also be supporting the...

Hello, We have a suspended timber floor, and that suspended timber floor contains an air grill (see picture attached). The grill attaches to a plastic ventilation shaft below the floor which is about 20cm long. It's a bit odd, given that most guidance on ventilating suspended timber floors...