Recent content by Leftie

Does the underlay have to be double sided? I kiow it needs to be low Top and moisture resistant.

That is useful, is there an adhesive you recommend and the 'special' trowell?? Also, does it still need an underlay and if so, what type? I think that last time we used an underlay with a peel-off backing to stick the wood to the underlay as we went along and didn't use an adhesive at all.

That is useful, is there an adhesive you recommend and the 'special' trowell??

I am getting conflicting advice from suppliers and installers about installing an engineered wood floor (18mm, with a 4mm hardwood top layer) over a concrete floor with underfloor heating. The manufacturer video shows the installer simply glueing the tongues and groves over a vapour proof...

I am no expet but it doesn't NEED lime mix. If it is listed the conservation officer may insist on it but not that many Victlorian terraces are listed and therefore obliged to play the conservation game. I rennovated an old victorian cottage a few years ago (or rather I knocked plaster off...

I have a wall in my lounge which is partly ( up to 1,5m) underground which had been dry but which had to be striped following a flood in the room from another source. The coursed rubble wall had been injected with a chemical DPC at 100mm intervals vertically and horizontally into the...

Is parquet suitable for use in the kitchen? I am sure I have seen old Victorian kitchens with parquet flors buit wondered what the limitations are?

My damp company are saying the at the flood will invalidate my warranty, although they can't explain why! They want to take all the waterproof render off and start from scratch but I recall the EO wires are jusually ust above the ground level and might not need much of the render taking off...

One elevation sits into the side of the hill so the back of the house has the neighbours drive behind it at about head height or higher in places. They have boarded it out with batton, board and skim but I think there must be something else between the stonework and the battons ( tanking or at...

Are they sandstone blocks? Are they rendered on the outside? What's the ground level relative to the DPC? Sandstone blocks. I have just had one gable re-rendered but the rest are exposed and opinted coursed stone. Behind? How does that work? One wall is below ground by about 8 feet...

I have an injected chemical damp course in an old sandstone house. During recent floods the house was submerged for an extended period to a depth of about 4 inches and we now have to strip out , dry and replaster I was wondering what damage might have been caused to the damp course...

Evening! I have just had the outside of my old sandstone house repointed with a lime mortar. When we bought the house 4 years ago the surveyor highlighted the erosion being caused to the stone by the weather and this led in part to the need for repointing after the sandstone around the...

Many thanks for that. The black floor runs under the staircase as well so they will have to take that out to do the floor unless they acro prop the main staircase and just take the first 2 steps out. Lets hope it is the two separating and not the sub floor breaking up. The water was coming...

We were flooded in the recent storms. Only about 2-3 inches of clear water but it ran through the house for 2 days. The insurance company sent a guy out with a damp meter who was registering 'very high' (ie off his damp meter scale) mositure content up to about 1.2-1.4 meters in some of the...

Yes, a very dense 'hard treacle toffee' like substance. No sign of any texture in it at al, it just looks like a set black smooth liquid.