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After much deliberation, I've decided that parquet flooring would be a nice replacement for the old and battered floorboards in a 100+ years old Victorian conversion (ground floor). Based on my reading, here is an approach I intend to use for laying them: 1. Remove old floor boards to expose...

I'm facing a similar problem. My concerns are with moisture variations between the crawl space below the joists and the room itself. Installing the recommended 19mm ply wood sub-floor, moisture barrier underlay, and then 20mm oak boards would raise the floor level unacceptably. However...

I simply did not consider that but it seems like a nice solution. With the floor boards up there is a nice opportunity to sort out the pipework and electrics and, as you say, insulate.

I plan to have the original, but badly damaged, 1 inch thick (26mm approx) floorboards ripped out and replaced in certain rooms of a Victorian property. The new floorboards will be 20mm thick solid oak floorboards. These days it seems impossible to get floorboards thicker than 21mm, and because...