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Hi, I've recently redone the floor in a first floor bedroom, and am soon going to be replacing the skirtings. Being a Victorian terraced house, the old skirtings were attached to wooden battens nailed to the wall; while I could recreate this it seems needlessly complicated, particularly...

Hi, I'm proposing to lay a 21mm thick structural engineered oak floor in a 1st floor bedroom (~3mx4.5m). I have taken up the old floorboards that were in a bit of a state and am going to lay the new floor directly onto the joists. The joists are 2.5" x 6" and run across the short width of the...

Hi, I've seen a number of threads on this subject but I'm still a little confused about what to do in our specific situation. We've lived in our house for a year or so, and we've noticed that after using water you can hear the hissing of flow back to the cold water tank for quite a while...

Hi, As mentioned in another post, I'm planning on laying a T&G oak floor over some recently exposed joists. Like many Victorian terraces, our house has pretty puny joists (6x2.5), so even with securely nailed boards, you tend to notice every footstep rattling every bit of furniture in the...

Hi, I'm in the process of redoing all the floors upstairs in our late Victorian house. We have reasonably nice pine boards under the carpet in most of the rooms except one, where they've taken a real beating. I've decided to lift the floor in there and use the good boards to patch up the few...