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Hi, am thinking of replacing an extremely creaky floor (suspect chipboard not on joists) as this will be a kids bedroom and is above living room i was thinking of lifting floor, rejoisting around sides and putting some kind of acoustic/soundproof insulation in. Anyone have any experience of...

Hello All, I wonder if any one can help me with a little issue I have at the moment. I live in a 3 bed semi, which on the ground floor has a suspended timber floor, all standard with the floor. At the front of the house in the porch, its FREEZING, so was thinking of: 1, taking up the...

Hi, I'm in the process of refurbishing my bathroom and plan to install an Omnie Torfloor system. This comprises of 22mm routed chipboard that replaces the existing flooring. The UFH pipes are pushed into the pre-routed slots and then 6mm plywood is glued and screwed to provide the required...

Hello, currently renovating 2 bed flat. I am top floor with one flat below me. Floors are standard tongue and groove wooden floorboards. The issue is that airborne noise coming through from flat below i.e TV, talking and coughing. There is currently standard loft insulation between the...

I live in an old house with a solid concrete floor that I know does not have a membrane underneath. I'm planning to do the kitchen out, and want to tile the floor. Under the exiting laminate I know there is some spalling of the concrete due to damp, so I need to deal with that too. Ideally I...

Hi all, I moved into my current house a few months ago and its has some issues with cold temperature and sound transmission. It's a 1970's semi detached Dorma, so the roof slopes to the level of the ground floor ceilings and the first floor covers a smaller area than the ground floor...

I've been trying to decide what the best cost/benefit insulation is for insulating under the ground floor of my c1900 house. Suspended wood, joist 170mm deep, width between joists 230-370mm, 2' crawl space, but only small(2'sqr) access. Glass mineral wool seemed the best option as its...

Hi Can I use foil faced phenolic insulation boards to insulate under a new suspended oak floor? The sub floor is 9 inch concrete and I intend to baton out the floor and then, with air gap between concrete and insulation, fill the space between joists with K8 boards, and then lay oak onto the...

Hi everyone, I'm renovating my front room (see my other posts) and I was recently under the crawlspace installing some electrics (1930's detached). We've had one winter in the house and to be honest it was f****** cold. The front room is north facing and there are 5, large, airbricks for...

Hi guys I'm just about to go ahead and insulate my existing suspended floor after reading some similar posts on this forum. I've bought some 'Space blanket' insulation this weekend from Homebase (1/2 price!) 3 questions really 1:- Foil facing the ground, or the floor? I'm assuming that...

To avoid the recent experience of struggling to keep the house warm, I'm going to insulate under the suspended ground floor. Particularly as we've gone for the stripped floor look with a few rugs. This has given us a few drafts and a generally cold feel to the floor. I'm planning to use 60mm...

I am buying a 5m x 3m shed and have a nice flat concrete slab to put it on. shed is pre fabricated and will be assembled on delivery. https://noahgardenrooms.co.uk/product/aspen/ I have requested damp proof course and 22mm t&g flooring. There is no option to insulate under the floor so am trying...

Hello group I've recently moved into an Edwardian town house, the previous tenant has stripped all the floorboards back and waxed them up, they look stunning, but the drafts that emanate between them is gruesome. I would like to insulate the flooring by means of inserting polystyrene between...

Hi, I've lifted the vinyl floor covering to the downstairs kitchen and bathroom and there is damp present on the tiles (on solid floor) beneath. The property has suffered very badly from condensation recently, there's bad mold on pretty much all of the walls and ceilings through the house...

I'm in the middle of a cottage restoration and seem to be receiving lots of conflicting advice. The ground floor cottage has old floorboards. In one room there has been some remedial work and concrete has been put under the floor - still with joists and suspended floor. In the other room...

New to this thought I’d ask for some help. Bought a bungalow a few weeks ago and the place has been freezing, I’ve had the heating on about 10 times in 7 weeks. Even guests have been sitting with a jacket or heavy top on. There are some parts of the loft with 100mm insulation and some parts...

Hi Can’t seem to get/find a definitive answer on this.... we’ve built an extension with a block and beam floor that will have the usual 100mm insulation with 65/75mm screed on top. Part of this extension will have a kitchen within it with an island that will have a sink on it. My question is...

Hi All, When insulating a loft. I know that building regs say that there should be 270mm of insulation up there. My question is this: If putting insulation in the rafters below the roof as well, would I still need 270mm of insulation under the floor or is the 270mm of insulation usually shared...

Hi all, we're about to sand and wax the ground floor of our house From past experience you can often get drafts up through the cracks between the floorboards so any ideas about how to insulate from underneath and still keep the required bits and bobs ventilated ? Access should be OK as we...

Hi, I've had a search through the site, and can't find a definite answer to my query... I live in a 1930's Glasgow sandstone terraced house. When we moved in 18months ago, we had the carpets lifted and original floorboards sanded back and varnished. Very nice. Anyway... the fact that all we...