I want to get under the floor in an alcove of the kitchen/diner area of my house (to try and find the source of dampness rising up the wall) - this part of the room is a normal suspended wooden floor with laminate single planks over the top, then the skirting boards fixed over the top of the laminate. I suspect, but dont know yet, that the laminate planks go across the underlying floorboards. Is this the right thing to do...?
1. remove skirting around the alcove
2. remove 2 or 3 lengths of laminate from one run so the adjacent runs strips are accessible, numbering them underneath by piece nearest the alcove and which run they come from
3. move on to next run and repeat 2.
4. take up underlay - just cut this around the exposed section?
5. take up floorboards
I need to look at the spare pack left by previous owners how the laminate strips fit together but I think they are just clicked and hopefully not glued! Should it be easy enough to take up and put back down?
1. remove skirting around the alcove
2. remove 2 or 3 lengths of laminate from one run so the adjacent runs strips are accessible, numbering them underneath by piece nearest the alcove and which run they come from
3. move on to next run and repeat 2.
4. take up underlay - just cut this around the exposed section?
5. take up floorboards
I need to look at the spare pack left by previous owners how the laminate strips fit together but I think they are just clicked and hopefully not glued! Should it be easy enough to take up and put back down?
