I dug out the plans for the house and all they say regarding the floor is:
"295 JJi Joist on joist hangers with 22mm chipboard floor over 200mm warmcell insulation on 9mm ply"
We've found out that the ORIGINAL plans had all the water/heating pipework above floor level and to save costs on the build as the budget spiralled out of control they decided to put all the services within the floor space to save a few quid
Just done a search on "warmcell" and what I've found is not what is in the floor space- what is in there is that itchy mineral wool stuff, no doubt another cost cutting exercise at our expense...
Having just a 200mm gap below the floor is crazy for any future maintainance. But it has given me an idea for a cost effective place to store my sea kayak- just need to excavate 6m by 0.5m wide only and put some old carpet below the house to slide it in. so just 30cm deep needs to come out to give me the height.
Think I will go ahead with the ply though...
Modern building eh?
"295 JJi Joist on joist hangers with 22mm chipboard floor over 200mm warmcell insulation on 9mm ply"
We've found out that the ORIGINAL plans had all the water/heating pipework above floor level and to save costs on the build as the budget spiralled out of control they decided to put all the services within the floor space to save a few quid
Just done a search on "warmcell" and what I've found is not what is in the floor space- what is in there is that itchy mineral wool stuff, no doubt another cost cutting exercise at our expense...
Having just a 200mm gap below the floor is crazy for any future maintainance. But it has given me an idea for a cost effective place to store my sea kayak- just need to excavate 6m by 0.5m wide only and put some old carpet below the house to slide it in. so just 30cm deep needs to come out to give me the height.
Think I will go ahead with the ply though...
Modern building eh?