Search results

It might be the screed on top? I'll pull it up soon.

It's vinyl but it's bulging under that

Over time I've noticed this lump forming in just one area of our floor... First I thought it would be a leaking pipe but there's no piping under that part and our boiler hasnt experienced any pressure drops. I believe this concrete floor was laid down like 30 years ago. Any idea what it could...

Yeh old plaster was backed up to 1.5 metres up because we had experienced some wet rot. Was plastered on Friday afternoon, rained a lot on saturday and I think they said they were skimming sometime soon. Here's a whole wall photo. The ground level isn't only slightly higher than the outside...

Possible has some waterproofer, the main thing he mentioned was the salt inhibitor used. I'll raise the concern about cementing over the course with him, Yeh the work is a bit rough I thought too but the main worry for me is any issues with bridging being my main concern.

Its about a bricks height where it was injected. The flooring is actually a fake wood look vinyl bullshit that was already laid when we moved in.

It's a concrete floor. Not entirely sure where the height of the joists used to be before the previous owners filled in the floor.

DPC was injected before the replastering. Injected into first mortar joint at the lowest point... So I guess around there. Covered by the rendering that they did, hence me asking the question...

Care to elaborate...? I always see plasterers only rendering to around the dpc mark.

So I had a damp company come and rerender the walls with salt inhibitor mortar sort of stuff (not entirely sure on the proper term) but they rendered straight to the ground. Wouldn't this breach the dpc?

Nah no grey dust, some pretty clean scores. Went into the cupboard and pulled up a board and it looks like so in the corner. It's a continuation of the flooring from the main area

Leaves some scores like this. Flooring and damp issues is pretty out of my depth!

Hmmm I always assumed it was concrete underneath, it's pretty solid when I stomp. Is that chipboard??? I thought it was some some of screed layer

Yeh I think it's totally damp related. I pulled up some flooring to see if something is linked between them... Not sure if this looks right. Looks like it's wet under these

Thanks for this. I'll get someone who knows about it to look at is as well to get their take on it. Curious, but could woodlice do the same thing as ants? I've found multiple woodlice in my house over the last few months.

Concrete floor. There's a bit of a musty smell and I saw some white spores but only in one part. Could it be dry rot or something?

Not exactly sure what thread this belongs in but I pulled back our sofa and seen this... What the hell even happened here? It's like my skirting and disintegrated and dirt particles are coming out from the corner?

Any reason why no need for sub base? Most pages I Google seem to keep pushing for a sub base of at least 75mm for some reason but I'm assuming maybe that's got heavier loads on top?

I'm getting a bit delusional digging here but could someone enlighten me to how deep I should be going for sub base and concrete base on top for foot traffic only? I'm currently about 150mm and I'm losing the life to live and it's such a small project haha.

I'm looking to lay down a concrete base for my outdoor pathway so I can tile over it. It's approx 210x100cm (let's say 2.1m2) in width and length. I'm going add a subbase but would appreciate it if anyone knows how much cement and ballast I would need to lay over it for the concrete base and...