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    Help Help uneven concrete area and Laminate flooring

    I did and follow the instructions of adding 3.5ltr of water to a bag and it was too thick to do much and set so quickly didn't have a chance to smooth over
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    Help Help uneven concrete area and Laminate flooring

    is a 3mm gap acceptable like as in the picture
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    Help Help uneven concrete area and Laminate flooring

    Recently remove a carpet and putting down 12mm laminate flooring with a 5mm sonic gold underlay. the room is 6m x 4m. the effected area is area is around after 4.5m as you see whether I have inserted a 5mm plywood and the red arrow Would i be ok to just screw the ply wood to the floor and lay...
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    Is this Asbestos or Cement Board

    This is an old house guess 1900, was part of a cupboard side. this is around 6mm thick. when you bend it in half doesn't seem too hard and will just break without making a mess
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    On the inside of the house - he's taken the plasterboard to show the brick-the cream bit is expanding foam and he tried to press it with cardboard that stuck to it now:giggle:
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    Is this Asbestos or Cement Board

    more picture and close up
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    Is this Asbestos or Cement Board

    He's been i n the property for over 40 years and was there when he moved in.
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    will try and get this
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    current owner been there 40 years and this was there
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    I thought they needed to be those blue bricks not the regular red bricks. The bay window had the blue bricks.
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    Is this Asbestos or Cement Board

    is this Asbestos or cement board?
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    The water ingress is only when it rains through the brick that meets the floor in the room where the bay window as taken for a straight window and the builder just used normal bricks to build up the wall. trying to solve the problem from inside as from the outside it is now rendered. There is...
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    This is the DPM I was looking to put before the underlay
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    Can you screed/level on top of membrane?
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    Damp sitting room floor Liquid DPM vs damp proof membrane

    I have a wet floor from water ingress and looking to lay laminate flooring. The floor may require a bit a levelling too. Is it okay to use damp proof membrane as I have plenty of or does it need to be liquid. Level first or DPM first.
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    Radiator not working re-fitted after plastering.

    @dal5band @terryplumb thanks a lot that is now getting hot and working
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    Radiator not working re-fitted after plastering.

    It's a combi boiler. All the other heaters are working except for this one that was removed.
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    Radiator not working re-fitted after plastering.

    Recently took off a radiator to do plastering and now after refitting it's not working. After refitting I opened the bleed valve until the water came out. I opened lock shield and radiator valve. I made sure that the anti frost pin is freely springing also opened the drain valve to make sure...
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    Is it okay to fill the cavity between 2 RSJ (running parallel) with Expanding foam

    On the inside the I beam is covered with a insulated plasterboard. This external wall is the old style double brick wall without a cavity. It's interesting to see that in those days they used to put a brick across both layers as a tie and now we use butterfly wires.
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    Is it okay to fill the cavity between 2 RSJ (running parallel) with Expanding foam

    @23vc that makes sense now what you are saying about the flange. just for my curiousity, is this how this beams would be fitted the red rectangles being the brick for outer and inner layer.
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