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I went for 25mm, if you're going with xps then 20mm should be just fine. I used 20mm xps for my underfloor heating in other rooms and that was perfectly sufficient.

Hi, well it's been close to two years now and it's gone really well I would say. I used Sika wood floor glue and first glued insulation boards to concrete then applied the same glue on the insulation and put the floor down. It's all been stable, noise free(no creaking ) and I feel no cold...

That's wonderful thank you :)

Hi everyone, I installed a composite doors yesterday and wasn't sure if these grey spacers are meant to stay on the inside of the frame? Wasn't sure if they are meant to stay there or be removed? Thank you

Thank you for the suggestion, I contacted them and the had a call back from Mr Littlefair himself had a lovely chat and he's going to mix a custom varnish for me :D I will update with the results once i get it.

Hi all, Took on a DIY project and while it was going on decided to protect the wood flooring with this self adhesive film: It was all going well until the time came to remove the film. Sadly as it was being removed it took some of the varnish with it from the flooring :( I bought some...

Hello, I want to add more sockets into the room thus I want to extend the ring main from an existing socket. Currently the socket in the room is wired as such (a socket and a spur to the left of it): My plan would be to do this (use wago connectors to connect to the spur and continue one of...

Small update. Did some cutting and chiselling: NOW my question is how deep are water pipes meant to be? Would they be in the concrete or under the concrete floor in the soil? I am cutting into the concrete around 50mm, to chisel it.

Thanks I also already have the DPM liquid too so I'll add it on regardless. I also plan to add 25mm PIR boards before glueing the wood on top

I already have the glue and had good results with doing the stairs and landing with it.

Well turns out that only half the room was concrete (the new bit that got extended) and the rest is this weird ?plastic/rubber? tiles that appear to be glued with bitumen I think. The tiled surface appears to be nice and evenly flat across the whole room while concrete bit has some dents and...

Thanks :) Also would Sikabond 54 Wood Floor adhesive stick well enough to a PIR boards?

Ok so I guess I might need to upgrade to 25mm PIR boards. Found this one: https://www.insulationsuperstore.co.uk/product/celotex-25mm-tb4025-insulation-board-2400mm-x-1200mm.html I am wondering now if 120kPa is strong enough to withstand the pressure of furniture where you have 4 people sitting...

House was built in 1970. I am wondering if 10mm XPS boards would be enough to provide decent enough insulation?

Hello, I'm planning to replace the carpet in my living room with engineered wood. I've done this already on the stairs and the upstairs landing. Once carpet is removed I plan to use self leveling compound to make sure that everything is flat and level and then apply damp proof membrane. From...

Hello, I just wanted to check if my understand of the wiring is correct before I go on with the replacement of the switch. This is my current witch wiring: And this is the switch I will be replacing it with: If I got this right the wiring should look like this?: Thank you :)

I am wondering the same :S Here the view of the wall from the outside I did my best to illustrate where is what, the blue blobs are the approximation areas where the efflorescence is on the inside walls: ALSO I did some scraping in the side room, some was easy and some was not BUT what I did...

There is no piping on that side and the issue is also upstairs as well in a tiny patch. I am not aware of any leaks there

Hello everyone, I got an issue with a wall in a storage room. When I removed all the stuff I realized that the paint it flaking off but more oddly there was odd crumble white power behind the paint. I've attached the pictures below: The brickwork behind is not great but what also...

Hi everyone, Would like some advice on insulation of the front door. The front door is made out a really nice wooden frame (looks better on the outside): And I really like the look of it, however it's not the warmest. The bottom panels were just basic thin wood ones so I was able to cover them...