wooden floor

Evening all, Firstly, Happy New Year! I’m planning on insulating underneath the floor boards in my living room. 1900s terraced house so adequate crawl space to do from below, plus I don’t want to damage the floor by lifting up. From research I understand best practice is a vapour barrier...

I have just finished installing a new floating, click together, engineered wooden floor in my first floor bedroom. I had been pretty diligent to prepare the room before hand, remove any raised nails, splats of plaster etc, and check for any dips in the subfloor. I didn't notice any. The...

I am laying an engineered wooden floor in my first floor bedroom. Transition The hallway outside the bedroom is carpeted, and so was the bedroom. So there is a brass grip strip along the door threshold. What is the best way to replace this strip so that the carpet is kept tacked down, but...

Hi Folks I've done lots of research into this for many months now but I'm just after some advice really on exactly what approach I should take. I am insulating my suspended wooden floor in my 1910 built house, I have gained access to the sub floor which has about 5 ft of space at its deepest...

The bedroom floor joists in our old cottage need strengthening, the floor is very bouncy and noisy. Currently there’s a hardboard floor down which we will either replace with same or a wood floor. My question is, what kind of tradesman do I need to do this? Wooden floor installers don’t seem to...

I've installed this new floor and used acoustic underlay (mutemat-3) and plywood below the wooden floor. The floorboards weren't changed and are quite old and crooked (in retrospect I should have changed them but wasn't guided to do so). Also, perimeter strip (a foamy strip) has been installed...

I put on engineered click floor, but the installer seems to me that he hasn't done a great job. He said that because he had to start from one side of the flat and go all the way, this resulted in what you can see in the pictures below: he had to fit the rest of the click floor "from the back...

I have sound insulated my wooden floor using MuteMat 3 and the flanking strip that comes with it. However my contractor left a part which is not part of the wall (therefore there is no skirting board) that touches the wardrobe without the strip, and I realized the other day that there is light...

We went on holiday for three and a half weeks and due to a thermostat error the heating was in full blast. Our oak floorboards have shrunk to cause a separation in the floor in many areas. Some gaps are a good 1.5cm and shows the floor below. Does anyone know how to restore the floorboards...

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We're currently in the process of redecorating our lounge and hallway, which currently has a real wooden floor in. However, we hate the current colour of it. It is far too dark, and we're really looking for something lighter. Here is a photo of the current finish: I've sanded back a sample...

We are embarking on a refit of our ground floor kitchen/lounge and would like to install electric underfloor heating. Any assistance on the considerations would be great. -Large 4ft ventilated subfloor cavity ;wooden joists; chipboard subfloor. Thinking we might use 100mm polystyrene insulation...

Some of the floorboard in the conservatory was swollen due to moisture. The water was also obvious on the carpet laying on top of the wooden floorboard. This is close to an area where radiators and heat pipes are but no leak is visible above the concrete floor. I decided to do a trace and...

Hi, I am going to install 15mm engineered wood as a floating floor. The existing sub-floor is t&g suspended floorboards which are reasonably flat (a few boards are slightly cupped). The new floor will be running the same way as the existing floorboards. I'm on the ground floor of a house so...