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Thanks for the ideas ,peeps. Problem is that there are no floorboards to lift, it being a concrete floor (soz, forgot to mention that). As you can imagine, digging holes around the chimney is going to cause more upheaval than the problem possibly warrants, there only being small areas of...

I started stripping a ground floor room for redecoration, and found damp, flaking plaster at the bottom of a bricked-up chimney breast. The breast is in the centre of a shared internal wall and has a vent at approx 18 inches up from the floor. I have opened the vent and cleaned all of the...

Wow! pacey reply WoodYouLike! No , FREE blocks ALWAYS come with free bitumen attached I would guess. I'm informed by someone-who-knows someone-who....(ad nauseam), that this shouldn't present too big a problem regarding re-laying. Is this right? the plastic, btw, is/are vinyl floor tiles...

I've been dead jammy and landed enough free (yes, FREE!)parquet blocks from an old school building to re-floor two good sized rooms! O.K., gloat over, my query is this; can I lay this parquet directly onto a sound plastic (of some sort) tiled floor? If so, could I use bitumen or would I...