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Totally agreed. Thats why I was asking for advice on which method was best from the options we’ve been given.

Thanks for sharing. Looks good.

We may need to reconsider the construction to lighten the load a bit but either way it’s going to be a lot of weight in one area so it needs some decent support. Thanks.

Yeah that’s all been taken into consideration. It was just the base/support I was questioning. Thanks.

There’s nothing there currently and we’re building a tall chimney breast to house it.

Yeah that’s a good point too. I haven’t fallen through yet! There is some “spring” to a floating floor though so I guess the tall chimney breast above does need some stability. If it was a standalone stove without the chimney breast I’d be a bit less concerned.

Okay that’s makes sense. Thanks very much. It’s a 1970s house and the concrete foundations seem really solid and no signs of subsidence so I’m guessing the solid concrete base might be overkill. Thanks again. That’s really helpful.

Like I said it’s over 100 kilograms concentrated in quite a small footprint with a tall stack of bricks and timber above it.

There are joists but there’s a big drop beneath the floor. Everyone we’ve spoken to has advised that we need a solid support as the floor/joists aren’t sufficient to hold the weight. We’re just trying to establish the best way of achieving the support.

Thanks for the reply. We’re okay with the thickness of the hearth and we’ve got that sorted. It’s the “strength” of the floor beneath the stove and the hearth. As I said, it’s a floating wood floor so we need something UNDER the floor to support the weight of the stove (and the hearth).

We’re installing a log burner in our lounge. The floor is a floating wood floor with a 60cm gap underneath and a solid concrete foundation. We know the log burner needs a solid base so we were originally told that we’d need a solid concrete base from the foundation to floor level to take the...

These are definitely things we’ll be looking into but I think in the short term I think we need to get a dehumidifier just to make the atmosphere more pleasant.

. Thanks for that. I was really just looking for pointers as to what could be the cause and whether we should be worried so the information pretty much everyone has given has been great. Everything I’ve looked at online suggests the humidity we’re seeing is too high and it generally feels...

I’m not getting it out every time there’s moisture in the air. We suspected there was moisture in the air before we got the meter. The meter is now out all the time keeping an eye on it. Whether we’re “getting a meter out” or not is absolutely irrelevant. There’s still high humidity whether...

That’s all well and good but we only got it because the place feels damp so ignoring the readings isn’t really addressing the problem.

Thanks for that. The leak is above and behind the bedroom which is the worst of the rooms so that’s definitely a possibility. But it’s also the bedroom that gets the least sunlight and so it’s the coldest room too. We’re waiting for the waste pipe to be fixed under the house insurance right now...

Sorry I must not have saved the blue mark. ‍♂️The leak is under the dining room though. If this leaking waste pipe was causing or contributing to the humidity, would we not see visible signs of damp somewhere? The humidity meter was only about £15 from Amazon and the results from that do vary...

It’s the rooms on the lower ground floor that have concrete floors. The main living space has a suspended wooden floor over a concrete foundation and we’ve not had a humidity issue there. I’ve attached a plan and an old estate agents photo of the back of the property showing the lower floor...

Thanks very much. I’ve always felt the temperature was the issue but I don’t know enough about it to say for sure. That’s really helpful. It’s incredible how different the temperature is between levels and as I said, these rooms never get to heat up like the rest of the house.

Thanks for that. I was really hoping that the humidity would settle when we’d been living here longer (6 months now). The upstairs was really humid at first but that has settled down to reasonable levels since we’ve been here but so has the temperature. My original feeling was that the...