Recent content by nickliv

Never a truer word spoken

It's due to go on sometime in early March. Think I'll wait. It'd be nicer crawling about on a warm floor than a cold one anyway!

Lift the wooden hearth, put timber flooring all the way into the fireplace, and then get a toughened glass hearth?

Hi Our livin room etc. is pretty close to needing a floor down, but the UFH hasn't yet gone on. (Boiler not connected yet) I have a couple of fan heaters in there for when it's really cold, and was wondering if I could get away with laying engineered oak (14mm thick IIRC) BEFORE the heatin...

Hi I had a concrete floor which was a bit high and uneven (20mm or so rise and fall) laid over water UFH pipes. Long story as to why. The room is 13M by 4 I've ground the floor down by the requisite 20 mil or so, and checked it for level all over. It's still a bit uneven but lower than the...

Well, happily 10 hours after the gnawing in the pit of my stomach turned into full blown panic, I managed to get in touch with my engineer. C16 is fine, (So why he specified C24 in the first place is a little perplexing) Doesn't mean I wasn't an arse for not checking the spec first though...

Anyone? I guess I could leave what I've already put in, and double up the vertical posts using C24, if I need to get more strength.

and I've discovered that I'm using C16, when C24 was specified. (Just checked this AM, my very bad.) Am I looking atripping it all out and starting again?

Give Ebay a try. Never a bad starting point.

My present bathroom has self adhesive vinyl tiles over a couple of levelling screeds over floorboards. The house is about 100 yrs old, and we'd like to replace the existing vinyl mank with ceramic tiles and have underfloor heating as well. The floorboards aren't in such good shape, but they're...