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I am currently lifting floor boards to insulate between the joists in my living room. Does anyone know if there are specific regulations for insulating under floorboards around a constructional hearth for an open fire? We are intending on fitting a wood burning stove at some point and wanted...

Ceramic floor tiles are cold to the touch. I want to lay some directly on to the concrete base. Is there any sort of insulation I can put between the concrete and the tiles to make them less cold?

Hey everyone, We are currently renovating our c.1900 Victorian terraced house in London. We have stripped out the entire property and are sanding the pine floorboards on the ground floor. The master bedroom will have painted floorboards and everywhere else (apart from the kitchen/bathroom!)...

For a kitchen & dining room knock through we are looking at wet underfloor heating for it. Approx 30sqm in total. The house is a relative new build (2007 Bryant home) , and when we had the lounge carpets replaced found a concrete/screed(?) floor under it. Now, with wet underfloor...

Good Morning All, In 2000 i extended my house, and as part of the BC regs then, i was required to insulate the extended part of the house. Now I'm thinking of doing the rest of the house, and looking on posts on here, and what i see on the net, i wasn't and still am not sure if i need to...

hi all and happy new year I live in an early Victorian house with suspended timber floors which can be very cold and draughty... In my loft I have 6 or 7 unused rolls of insulation, I was simply going to spend one afternoon rolling them out in the loft as an extra layer but then wondered if they...

Hi I have a typical draughty 1930's house with suspended floors and I understand a fair bit about insulating the ground floor. We have air bricks back and front on both floor levels and of course it gets pretty draughty under the ground floor and there is a void of about 10inches under the...

Hopefully moving at the end of the month to a 1925 solid walled property. It has some lovely floorboards in the lounge which I hope to simply sand and finish. I think it is planks as opposed to tongue and grooved and I suspect there will be some small gaps. I'm considering gluing in slivers...

Hi there, I am in the planning stages of having my downstairs bathroom redone and it is downstairs and it is a suspended wooden floor in the winter the floor does get cold. As i am going to have marble flooring this could get very cold in winter months. The bathroom is pretty small and the...

Just moved into our new house, which was built mid 1980. The house is technically a bungalow, but with a large basement at ground level. The basement has a concrete floor and plenty of ventilation but no heating. The ceiling is bare plasterboard. I do not know what is between it and the...

i have a suspended timber /joisted floor about 1.5 feet above concrete base. i want to have exposed floor boards but as there is a great deal of draft under the floor (from the airbricks etc), so i need to insulate it can anybody reccomend a quick easy way? i was thinking of getting the...

Hi, I have a 1970's house with a suspended floor. During the winter the floor gets very cold and I want to fix this. I have access to under the floor through a small hatch. I can not lift the floorboards up to insulate from above, so am trying to do it from below. The floor currently has...

Hi, I will be working on a DIY project soon which involves using ceramic tiles on a concrete kitchen floor. Is there an insulation product that I can use under the tiles to stop them from getting too cold? (have looked at undertile heating but too expensive)...

I'm at the stage of my extension where I need to lay the floor insulation before doing the screed. I currently have a concrete slab, which will have a DPM, then 100mm of PIR. The issue I have is that when I did the concrete slab, I didn't manage to get the surface completely flat. I could do...

I am gathering information prior to building a swimming pool and wanted to know if anyone has any views with regard to insulating under the floor of the pool. The walls will be constructed using Quad-Lock which will give an R-value of up to 40 which is great but I will still loose heat...

As it says can anyone tell me if the insulated tile backer boards, or uninsulated laid over celtox insulation can safely suport the weight of kitchen floor units when tiled? Using elec underfloor heating and need to raise the floor height 160mm above the existing slab, trying to find the...

Hi After about a year putting together a utility room on the back of our garage, I discovered a lovely leaking pipe. There is a OSB wooden floor covered with solid oak flooring. The floor is about 12" above a concrete floor which was the back of the old garage. The pipework is all under the...

My lounge has a void (about a meter high) underneath it from which I can see seven inches of block between seven inch wide concrete beams. The beams protrude a couple of inches down below the bottom of the blocks. I wish to insulate it and would appreciate advice on what material is best for...

I have a floor (above a basement) which is constructed using Block and Beams. Under the B&B will be 25mm of insulation, Rockwool RWA45. Above will be 25mm Celotex rigid board, membrane sheet, UFH pipes and then 50mm of liquid screed. To the side of the area in question is backfill (around the...

Hi, So I pulled up the carpets in my new-old house and saw some lovely pine floorboards. Hardly a mark on them at all. I thought I could save myself a few quid by just sanding and varnishing them. The problem is that there's a gale blowing under the floor. On the front and the back of the...