Recent content by mart

Hi, ive just recently put in tongue and groove flooring in my attic and want to store stuff up there, such as books etc but i'm worried that it could get damaged as in cold weather it gets frosty up there and the only protection is the black sheeting on the inside of the roof. Ive heard that i...

Just had a new kitchen fitted, and afterwards fitted a laminate wooden floor myself. I removed the removable kitchen floor plints and ran the laminate flooring underneath the units rather than cutting the laminate around the plinths. the problem is that now the floor has been raised the plinths...

would expansion foam do the trick or is it hard to produce a smooth finish over it, ive got to put tiles over it when done.

As part of my kitchen wall I've got plasterboards attached to the breezeblock by 'dabs', which means theres a gap between the plasterboard and the breezeblock. I've accidentally broken off a section of the plaster board about a foot long and three inches wide. Can i plaster over it, oe squirt...

Hi, i've got a block and base floating concrete floor with a void underneath it. There's crevices alongside the sides of the blocks where the blocks meet and i want to fill in these crevices as they go down to the air void and i'm worried about water vapour coming up. Can anyone recommend...

Yep, the concrete base itself, what would the floor screed be made of though, is that something like sand?

Hi anyone know about damp-proof membranes, should they always be underneath a concrete floor or can they be on top of it. A damp proof guy told me that my dpm underneath the concrete was missing/ damaged but now a surveyor (over the phone) has said that it can be on top of the concrete. I have...

its a concrete floor, then above that theres plastic sheeting across it (is that a protective sheeting?, above that its polystyrene insulation tiles en on top of that its plywood flooring. i dont know whats directly under the concrete floor though, should that be where the membrane should be...

Hi, thanks to everyone who've answered my questions before. Here's yet another one about my nuisance floor. Can water or water vapour come up through a concrete floor and go through a polysteryne insulation block to ruin a plywood floor above it. My housing surveyor who's looked at it has said...

This might sound like a stupid question but does anyone know how concrete floors in new houses are laid. do they pour in the concrete all in one go to produce a seamless floor or is it produced off site in several large chunks and then put down. I ask because my concrete kitchen floor has what...

Hi can anyone help me with this question. My kitchen floor is concrete, with polysterne insultation on top and plywood slabs laid on top. I've got to replace several of the slabs as they have got damp. One person said that they should be replaced with Marine plywood while another says that i...