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Thanks for your advice I have found that I can buy one of those metres locally for the same price it would cost to hire one! I have been speaking to a damp expert (one I actually trust!) this morning about this, and he strongly recommended not putting anything such as a liquid DPM onto an...

ok, think ive found somewhere to hire one from. If the moisture content is say ~50 - 75% rh, what steps would you recommend? The meter I could hire is a Vaisala HM134 is this the correct kind of meter?

I see your point - higher mooisture content below the floor presumably? Dunno what their actual reading was - can u buy a suitable damp meter from somewhere like screwfix? Cheers

Forgot to mention - another reason I want to go for a battened floor is that curently my pipes all run along two of the walls and Id really like to get these moved under the floor - hence Id need to install new kitchen cabinets onto the wood floor.

I havent measured the moisture content yet - when it was measured a while ago in the area where there is no impervious tiles covering it (ie under a kitceh cabinet) - the guy from the damp company told me there was negligible damp. When I lift a tile, the floor looks damp, but soon dries out, so...

Hi all, This is my first post - so be kind to me! I am about to start renovating our kitchen. It has a solid concrete floor, possibly around 100 years old, and so with no proper DPM. Currently the kitchen floor has a crappy bituminous levelling compound (which only covers about the 70% of...