Recent content by chrismason

Hi I have now removed the dining room floor. The Wickes Fibreboard Underlay was in exactly the same condition as when laid two months ago. Visually everything looked fine. I then removed the fibreboards and examined the subfloor. As I suspected it was not level. There is a ridge that runs...

Hi, thanks for the reply Yes I used thresholds (nice solid oak ones) between all the rooms with suitable expansion gaps. Each floor is completely independent. As a side issue these have also started to squeak like hell. This would appear to be because the engineered flooring the threshold...

Thanks for the reply. I plan to lift the floor next week. I too suspect the subfoor rather than the underlay and will check this more throughly when I have removed the floor. As I mentined in my first post the hallway previously had laminate with 3mm foam underlay. It didn't seem to have any...

Thanks for the reply. Its good to get a pros opinion! The floor is pretty noisy - it seems to vary i guess due to temp/humidity etc but at its worst involves localised cracking with every footstep. The interesting thing is that it has got worse with time. During the last two months that...

Hello All, I installed an engineered oak floating floor around two months ago in my downstairs hallway, living room and dining room - approx 40sqm in total. Initially the installation seemed to be successful but over time the floor has become increasingly noisy - specifically with cracking...