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My sad flooring story ... help! Thick wooden engineered T&G (1/2") on insulated underlay on parquet (bitumen adhesive) on herringbone wooden block (bitumen adhesive) to concrete floor. This in both hall way and dining room. Have removed this all and left with concrete with residual...

many thanks for the very quick replies. the reason for my question is that my walls are finished in two different ways and I'm trying to understand what is right and why before sorting them out :-) A wall adjacent to the drive had a bellcast, pebbledash above, float finished render below...

My house is completely pebbledashed. Looking around at other pebbledashed houses there appears to be four approaches to how the bottom of the wall is finished. 1. Dash all the way to the base of the wall (i.e. where it meets the driveway/ground) or even below the level of the earth 2...