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Option one sadly won't work since the gap is a full expansion gap at 10mm ish, option two I hadn't thought of. Might be that I do two followed by three as a stop-gap since I'm not a fan of this door anyway (who thought a 450mm opening was reasonable?) but it does mean I can finish the floor...

Little bit of a thread revival but hammered in lots and lots of slate into the gap top and bottom then repointed and it's absolutely solid. Appreciate all the advice!

I think I know my answer but thought I'd run it by some smarter folks than I! I've just had a new floor laid and didn't account for the thickness of the underlay so now with the floor down the sliding door (barely) has room to slide, and definitely can't when the bead goes over to cover the...

Had a bit of a hoover in the joints for some better photos. I've look at a few which still have slate underneath and the joists are definitely sat directly on the slate. Any easy way to avoid that or am I stuck? I was hoping there would be mortar both sides of the slate so it could bed in. It...

I've just had another poke around this morning - I think the mortar disappearing underneath makes sense. The edges of the slate crumbles away to dust but quickly goes back to solid stone. When putting the new slate in what do you do about the edges - leave a gap or is there something sensible...

The floor in the corner of the room is sagging, I pull up a couple of floorboards expecting a rotted joist but find out that the joist has been laid directly on top of a slate (I assume, it’s very crumbly) DPC which I understand isn’t ideal at the best of times but that slate has just completely...