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I'm trying to sort out my new house - front half is a 30s cottage and back half was built (semi-sympathetically) in the 1980s. I have a very limited budget and only intermediate DIY skills. The whole house was extensively refurbed, using a variety of questionable shortcuts in the 70s and 80s.
The sitting room and dining room are part of the original cottage and most of the floor is suspended timber but there is a small part that is quarry tile, presumably laid on ash on top of the earth (what was the original kitchen). This is currently covered with a fairly disgusting carpet with thick rubbery underlay. The back of the house (80s), including the kitchen, study and lavatory have concrete floors. These have been screeded and very thin sheet vinyl flooring stuck down. They look even.
I want to install floating engineered wood floor in the front of the house and click-together LVT in the back. I'm a bit skeptical about the quarry tile bit of the floor, but it's had underlay and carpet on top of it for ~35 years and there's no damp or rotting. Would it be possible to buy a good quality underlay that includes a DPM (like this?) and then lay a floating EW floor on top?
I was planning to use Quickstep Livyn tiles for the back of the house, and their prorietary underlay. There would be an 11.5mm difference in the height of the floors. Can I raise the kitchen floor (concrete) with 12mm plywood? How would I best fix this down? Again the top floor is floating.
The sitting room and dining room are part of the original cottage and most of the floor is suspended timber but there is a small part that is quarry tile, presumably laid on ash on top of the earth (what was the original kitchen). This is currently covered with a fairly disgusting carpet with thick rubbery underlay. The back of the house (80s), including the kitchen, study and lavatory have concrete floors. These have been screeded and very thin sheet vinyl flooring stuck down. They look even.
I want to install floating engineered wood floor in the front of the house and click-together LVT in the back. I'm a bit skeptical about the quarry tile bit of the floor, but it's had underlay and carpet on top of it for ~35 years and there's no damp or rotting. Would it be possible to buy a good quality underlay that includes a DPM (like this?) and then lay a floating EW floor on top?
I was planning to use Quickstep Livyn tiles for the back of the house, and their prorietary underlay. There would be an 11.5mm difference in the height of the floors. Can I raise the kitchen floor (concrete) with 12mm plywood? How would I best fix this down? Again the top floor is floating.
