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    advice needed - flooring void and a concrete block - removal

    Tel, not much progress I'm afraid, have fmily commitments also. Heres some more pictures, I've got about 1 1/2 brick depth to dig out yet I've a soil pipe that i need to lower, whats the best way to approach this, cut it down and fill somehow? The photo of the airbrick is the one next to the...
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    advice needed - flooring void and a concrete block - removal

    benny, can you explain why your idea is better, as i lack the knowledge?
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    advice needed - flooring void and a concrete block - removal

    Thanks Tel, Ive had most of the floorboards up and have been clearing all the rubble and clearing the air bricks, I did find an air brick bottom left of the picture that was completely blocked, now cleared and can feel the air moving. the gap between left hand wall support and the outside wall...
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    advice needed - flooring void and a concrete block - removal

    Thank you. so bring the bricks which are around the hole level with the floorboards? and fill the hole in with concrete? so the bricks will show (though they will be covered with kitchen units / laminate) how thick should the concrete layer be?
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    advice needed - flooring void and a concrete block - removal

    Hi all, I'm replacing a lot of broken floorboards in my kitchen and in one corner of the room there is a concrete block measuring about 1m2 which is rasied above the floor level. In my wisdom I removed the concrete only to find that its filled with soil. Theres no bottom to it, I hoped that it...
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    Replace floorboards ready for LVT installation

    Thanks Martin, appreciate your idea, but much too much work for what I have in mind!
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    Replace floorboards ready for LVT installation

    Thanks daz, would you recomend any particular floorboards, or are they all much the same?
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    Replace floorboards ready for LVT installation

    Hi all, I've bought a 2 up-2 down house which needs a lot of renovation. I'm currently tackling the kitchen and plan to do as much as I can myself, being a fairly competent DIY'er! Kitchen is about 17m2, downstairs is roughly double that, around 34m2 The floorboards are in a sorry state...
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