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I have just had lino laid on my concrete kitchen floor. Despite purchasing the thickest one I could get it is so cold to walk on. Could I put some sort of thin insulation under it? I have seen a really thin insulation at B&Q which looks like it would do the job. Is it okay to put...

Hi. I’m looking to improve the insulation in our living room a little. Despite carpets being down, the floor is always cold due to a large area underneath the floor boards. At least a meter deep with good air circulation. We’re having some new carpets down in a few weeks and a friend has...

Hi Just planning / costing our new build and we are going to have UFH on all floors (on spreader plates between joist on 1st floor). I have been told different things from electricians. As the heating pipes are in the floor joists this area will get warm, will any electrical cables...

We have a floating bamboo floor under our washing machine and it causes it to vibrate like mad and make a lot of noise. The machine will also stop during the spin cycle with an error. Floor is 1930's concrete, then self levelling compound, then foil insulation, then the boards. The machine has...

My living room is on ground floor. It has a suspended wooden floor over a large vented cavity (several feet deep). It gets pretty cold in winter. I want to get carpet in this room; both for comfort and to increase the warmth/insulation in the colder months. I’m aware that doing under-floor...

My daugters room is above the garage and very cold in the winter. Is it ok to use normal wool type loft insulation under her floor? The type of insulation I bought was called space blanket and encloses the wool type stuff in a big plastic/foil bag. I bought it and then read on the package...

Contrary to everyone trying to work out how to insultae under the boards... I'm trying to understand the potential downsides of laying something like EcoTec Floor-Foam Insulation above the boards instead. I noted PUR/foam/wool products you'd use to insulate under the boards tend to have lower...

Downstairs in my house I have exposed wooden floorboards which are great, however in winter time they do get a little cold. With heating prices going up I have decided to insulate underneath them. (There is a space about 1 metre high running under the house). Firstly would this cause any...

Hi all I have an existing rectangular attic floor comprised of 5 inch t&g pine planks and been down approx.60 yrs and in very good u molested condition. . It measures approx 8mx4m.At each side, it has the usual space in the eaves and this is fully insulated but the main floor area was never...

I want to have a tap in my (yet to be built) garage. The tap will be at the point in the garage farthest away from the rest of the house. If I want to run an MDPE pipe to this tap (and on from there to a greenhouse further down the garden) am I better off running the MDPE pipe under the...

With recent sub-zero temperatures this week I've had water dripping from the underside of my sloped roof down into the loft. Not leaks from tiles/felt, but multiple droplets from underside (ie condensation?). Loft floor is part boarded and mostly insulated with old fibre-glass style rolled...

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I need to insulate under my suspended wooden floor. Good news is, access is extremely easy to the entire sub-floor via generous basement. Will insulating boards do the job? Or am I best getting wool? And any benefit of panelling over it?

Does anyone know the insulation thickness for pipes laid under a suspended floor, ie below any insulation? This is for a new extension. Many Thanks

I'm thinking of laying wood laminate flooring in my lounge. The existing flooring is concrete with vinyl tiles under carpet. Should I retain the tiles for insulation purposes, or is there a better way of insulating the floor? Thanks for any advice.

on lifting a section of floor to replace some broken chipboard I have some eps beads (similar to what is used in cavity wall insulation). All seems fine and it's doing it's job. There is a rough concrete sub floor very uneven and then a 80mm high frame with chipboard on top, so I guess the eps...

Hi All, We've got a 1994 David Wilson detached property. We're extending the kitchen at the rear and want to have Wet Under Floor Heating in the new and the old part. How do I decide if the existing concrete floor has insulation already in the slab. The house is built on a raft foundation...

I am considering putting underfloor insulation in three of the first floor bedrooms to assist in retaining the heat. With three children, it will be very difficult to completely bring up the floorboards/chipboards. I have heard that there are different kinds of insulation that can be...

Hi I've got a suspended timber floor in the sitting room and I can get into the crawl space below the floor without taking any of the floor up, so I am planning to use spray foam insulation on the underside of the floor boards to cover any gaps and therefore stop drafts coming up between the...

New Garage attached to the house and will be more often than not used as a play room rather than a car storage so looking at laying insulation under slab. Kingspan say to use Styrozone™ N500R but having trouble finding stockist and is Styrozone™ N500R overkill ? Is there some other brand...