Sorry about the awful singing, I hope you good people might be kind enough to give me some advice.
Our kitchen floor is awful, lumpy, bumpy and creaky. The construction seems to be concrete, vapour barrier and big polystyrene insulation blocks, with some godawful tongue and groove chipboard stuff on top. One creak too many has sent me over the edge, I want to rip the whole lot up and chuck it in a skip. The weathers getting warmer now, so I'm thinking it's now or never.
Once I'm down to concrete, I'm looking to remove and replace the airbricks with normal ones, put down some sort of self levelling compound then tile on top. I'm looking to use tiles with a textured/uneven appearance so they're a little more forgiving of my amateur tiling skills (I've previously did the kitchen wall tiles to a good diy standard). If the missus digs her heals in and wants something flat and shiny, I'll get a professional tiler in to do it once I've done the prep work.
I'm assuming the vapour barrier can be chucked as it's purely to stop the chipboard from getting moist, is this correct? What about insulation....(obviously I can't tile on top of polystyrene lol ), I'm assuming it would be best to tile directly onto the concrete, but would this end up being freezing cold and/or breaking any sort of building regulations regarding energy efficiency?
Sorry if this is answered elsewhere.
Thank you.
Our kitchen floor is awful, lumpy, bumpy and creaky. The construction seems to be concrete, vapour barrier and big polystyrene insulation blocks, with some godawful tongue and groove chipboard stuff on top. One creak too many has sent me over the edge, I want to rip the whole lot up and chuck it in a skip. The weathers getting warmer now, so I'm thinking it's now or never.
Once I'm down to concrete, I'm looking to remove and replace the airbricks with normal ones, put down some sort of self levelling compound then tile on top. I'm looking to use tiles with a textured/uneven appearance so they're a little more forgiving of my amateur tiling skills (I've previously did the kitchen wall tiles to a good diy standard). If the missus digs her heals in and wants something flat and shiny, I'll get a professional tiler in to do it once I've done the prep work.
I'm assuming the vapour barrier can be chucked as it's purely to stop the chipboard from getting moist, is this correct? What about insulation....(obviously I can't tile on top of polystyrene lol ), I'm assuming it would be best to tile directly onto the concrete, but would this end up being freezing cold and/or breaking any sort of building regulations regarding energy efficiency?
Sorry if this is answered elsewhere.
Thank you.