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Sounds good - Cheers!

The T bars sound great. Just to recap on the floor: build up the level, fit plywood, fit combined DPM and insulation, glue oak together (PVA) leaving expansion gap at walls etc and fit T bars at the thresholds. It looks like you do this all the time, so it must be able to cope with central...

I (mistakenly) thought that I'd need to cramp up the oak onto joists, and I left enough space so that I could fit them directly to a concrete base - had removed earth plus quarry tiled floor and didn't want a suspended floor over bare soil, so fitted the concrete with a DPM under it - should...

Very interesting, I'm getting my head around the idea of the floating :P floor now - I'm more used to softwood T&G fitted directly to joists and clamped up tightly by cramping from the joists, then nailing down. I don't know what you mean by wooden threshold - how would this give me the height...

Its becoming clearer - I think! See what you mean about the batons and joists, but I will have to raise the floor from the concrete by 5 inches (125mm) (the living room where the floor is going in is 5 inches below the kitchen floor level) so I'll need to add some height to the concrete before...

Its becoming clearer - I think! See what you mean about the batons and joists, but I will have to raise the floor from the concrete by 5 inches (125mm) (the living room where the floor is going in is 5 inches below the kitchen floor level) so I'll need to add some height to the concrete before...

Thanks, Do you mean I should fix batons onto the concrete, then fit a DPM, then plywood then foam underlay and blind nail the boards down. What type of DPM should I use with this? I have heard of builders paper and even a liquid damp proofer painted onto the sub floor. There seem to be lots...

Sorry - Ooops, too many batons - last "batons" should have read "concrete"

The existing concrete is 5" below the level I need to build the floor at , it has a visqueen sheeting between it and the sand/ hardcore bottom layer. I put the concrete at a lower level believing that it would be easier to cramp up a wooden floor onto joists or batons fixed directly to the...

Can anyone give advise on installing solid oak 20mm T&G (all-round) flooring. I have a concrete floor (3 years old with DPM below it) which is 5" below the level of the oak floor. I had thought of installing batons or small joists directly to the concrete or batons to the concrete plus 20mm...