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Makes sense, thanks. Yorkshire Water don't advertise any help for replacing lead, but they are coming out tomorrow to test for it, so we'll see what they say...

Our house has an old lead water supply pipe on our side of the meter. We're going to replace it to get rid of the lead, but to also to hopefully improve the flow rate (currently only 10 l/m to the kitchen sink) as we want to install an unvented cylinder. We plan to run 32mm from our side of the...

The required quantities have been defined and agreed between our architect and local building control so I don’t really want to faff with them. Given this is work we didn’t plan on having to do, we’re trying to save costs by doing most of it ourselves, so the question was really around the...

We're replacing our existing suspended timber floor with a new solid floor. We plan to dig down to 485mm for the builder to build it up again in a couple of weeks. The final floor build up will be; 150mm MOT 1 25mm Sand Blinding DPM 150mm Concrete 100mm Insulation 60mm Screed The existing...

We wouldn't fill it in if we didn't have to. The hallway into the extension will be over the cellar's current location, we spent a load of time with the architect trying to figure something else out but it's the only place that it would really work.

Got it. What would the options be? A structural in-fill or suspended floor across that section?

Well, the plan is to continue the new solid floor pour over this section so any sort of sinking wouldn't be great as it could end up cracking the new slab too. The cellar's also in the corner of the existing property so sinking would more than likely impact the foundations holding up that...

It's pretty small, around 7sqm.

Our cellar is approx 1m below the internal ground floor level, so there's a void between the cellar ceiling and the first floor level. We plan on filling it in to extend the ground floor space in prep for a new extension across it early next year. What's the best way of doing it? We were...

All heating pipes will be getting pulled out, we'll stick UFH in above the insulation/below the screed. The house is being rewired anyway so the sparky will drop the new cable down from above instead of it running under the ground floor. The water mains pipe does come into the house through the...

Builder's coming around this week to discuss exactly that. We were already digging out the sub floor to allow for better ventilation so we now have the required depth to do it. My biggest concern with pouring a floor has always been forcing any moisture up along the DPM and into the walls.

Lifted one of the problematic floors this morning. Started to look into where I could install some airbricks to realise the joists were actually sitting at ground level, so there's no room beneath the joists outside to install any airbricks! What are my options? Lower the outside ground level...

The property was built around 1880. It has no existing air bricks. There's no obvious signs of any leak, the soil its self is bone dry, at the minute, so we believe it's been caused by a mix of the soil moisture content increasing in winter (where the joists are resting on the soil!) and the...

In the process of renovating our house. We found a number of rotten joists in all downstairs rooms, including the hallway. As well as replacing the joists, that run front to back, we need to install some air bricks (it currently has none) but there's already an extension across the rear of the...

We’ve recently purchased an older property. Built around 1850 with solid brick external and internal walls and suspended timber floors. It’s in need of some renovation, predominantly cosmetic, but as we’ve gone around, we’ve found at least a couple of rotten joists in every downstairs room...

The existing joists are notched and resting on the external walls, is this ok? Id like the replace with deeper joists so we have room for more insulation but that would mean making a bigger notch in the new joists or raising the floor height?

Our current plan is to install air bricks and replace the joists/boards in that area. We had considered a solid floor, and UFH, but given the property doesn't have a DPC, that I can see, we'd have no where to tie in the DPM and I'd rather not just leave it lapped behind the skirts.

Totally. We only got the keys to the house a couple of weeks ago so we're still uncovering stuff. We knew it needed air bricks, all the floors seem solid so we didn't know what we'd discover until we started stripping the place. My main concern right now is the state of the boards. I'm guessing...

Stripping another room. It had LVT laid on ply, on top of the original floorboards. When I, finally, got to removing the ply, I found what looks like a chalky substance between the ply and the floorboards - it seems to be directly around the (gas) fire. The floorboards in the alcove by the...

Pulling up the parquet flooring in the house we've recently purchased and I noticed the ends of a couple of the floorboards below were white and a chisel went straight through them. Lifted the boards up to find the joists resting on some loosely placed bricks and then direct to soil, with some...