Hello guys wondered if any of you can help?
First things 1st, basically taken up an old and pretty horrible laminate floor in the hallway (approx 16 sq yrds) and suprise suprise theres carpet still under there. we've been in the house for 6 yrs so its been there a lot longer than that !.
Taken up the carpet and the old carpet and it seems they've screed the floor before putting this lot down and some,e of the sreed had come up with the carpet. On closer inspection most of the screed is coming up as its not bonded to the concrete any longer.
Weve now taken up all the old screed which didnt take long at all, it just scraped up with a yard brush.
The main question i have is to do with the concrete thats left behind. It seems sound with no cracks or chunks missing but you can dig it out quite easy with a trowel and is a little "powdery". It also feels damp too.
What im planning on putting back is a reclaimed maple parquet floor in blocks. Obviously i can lay these down on the damp concrete.
Do i either a) put a liquid sealer of some sort down and then ply over and set parquet to that? or b) put physical DPM down and then board? or c) put a liquid DPM and then set parquet straight to that?
can any one help? im sure im not the only one to come up against a nasty floor when taking up old floor coverings!!
Your guys help much appreciated
Thanks Matt
First things 1st, basically taken up an old and pretty horrible laminate floor in the hallway (approx 16 sq yrds) and suprise suprise theres carpet still under there. we've been in the house for 6 yrs so its been there a lot longer than that !.
Taken up the carpet and the old carpet and it seems they've screed the floor before putting this lot down and some,e of the sreed had come up with the carpet. On closer inspection most of the screed is coming up as its not bonded to the concrete any longer.
Weve now taken up all the old screed which didnt take long at all, it just scraped up with a yard brush.
The main question i have is to do with the concrete thats left behind. It seems sound with no cracks or chunks missing but you can dig it out quite easy with a trowel and is a little "powdery". It also feels damp too.
What im planning on putting back is a reclaimed maple parquet floor in blocks. Obviously i can lay these down on the damp concrete.
Do i either a) put a liquid sealer of some sort down and then ply over and set parquet to that? or b) put physical DPM down and then board? or c) put a liquid DPM and then set parquet straight to that?
can any one help? im sure im not the only one to come up against a nasty floor when taking up old floor coverings!!
Your guys help much appreciated
Thanks Matt