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Hello, My sons rabbit has urinated on his bedroom floor, it has had a rug on top and we just pulled it back to discover the floor has dark patches on it. The areas are already dry and all advice I can find is based on it still being wet. The floor is solid oak and is Osmo hardwax oiled...

Should have supplied more info. Will be a bedroom, quote was full whack they used a subbie for this and from what I can see did not check the quality. It will have a wooden floor on top nod heavy bedroom furniture, left as it is I do not think will be long before something goes wrong...

Had a builder in to lay an OSB floor in our attic. It is an older house and the joists were not level, he said he would level these out before laying the floor. I had expected him to add strips to the top of the joists before laying. The job is done but I am to happy with the bouncing and noise...

Treated chipboard means you cannot secret nail and I think you will struggle to find a glue that will bond with it, pretty much limits you to floating. This may not be a bad thing but without knowing what your end floor is like it's difficult to recommend it. As WYL said, ply expands your...

Not wanting to start a row or 'blow smoke' but myself (and many others on here) have followed WYL's advise and found it to be bang on.

Useroftheforce, I think you have misunderstood WYL's 'directly'. If you want the new boards to go in the same direction as the existing ones you will have to ply, if you want to go without ply you will have to lay the new ones perpendicular to the existing ones. Floating is where you do...

How old is it, could it be the internal battery? I had an old work laptop that did something similar and they wrote it off. I somehow worked out that when running the systems tests and turned it off and on again (at the mains) it would load up, manged to do this a few times to back up files and...

I have a room that I will now be laying a solid wooden floor on. It is a cement floor (will be level and screed) and is over a cellar that will be used for wine storage and reading the water meter, it has a very low ceiling and will never be a habitable room. In one corner of the room (6mx4m...

Are you joking or has someone seriously come through and tried to sue you?

There ate electricity/TV cables running in the plastic boxing on the ceiling and I thought a two method approach would work best, have the poly stuff glued on but not covering the cabling, if I need to access it I can then peel back the thin sheet stuff. Will have a look at all the options on...

I want to insulate the floor in my sitting room, it is a concrete floor over a cellar, there is reasonable airflow in the cellar which means in the winter the floor gets pretty cold. As it's concrete I do not fancy loads of drilling etc to batten and was wondering if I could glue the polystyrene...

Perfect cheers. Boards already bought (doing four bedrooms) the bevel is a micro one that does not appear to deep, hopefully it would not show too much. Once again thanks for your help.

WYL, having followed your excellent advice in the past (with results that I am very happy with) I have another question. I have a bedroom that is 6mx4m that will have a small dressing room (read large built in wardrobe but with proper walls) built at one end and the entrance door next to it...

I have looked into KVH timber for a joist and see it is equivalent to C24. I want to have the timber 100mm wide and am not sure if I should go with 180 or 200 depth. The span is 4m and spaced at 600mm. I think I might be ok with 180 but can only find tables that go to 89mm. The room above...

I need to replace a floor, existing joists are very old and have suffered from wood worm, the floor above is very bouncy and bows in the middle (there are no noggins, which does not help). They are currently spaced at 600mm and the span is 4m, going into a solid sandstone wall. By using the...

Thanks for the response it makes perfect sense why you prefer floating. Thinking about it I have a couple of echo gaps in the kids playroom on a floor that was glued. Fortunatley it does not matter, not even sure why I bothered to get the floor put in as you can't see it under all the toys...

WoodYouLike, Having read your posts and followed your excellent advice in the past I have a question on floor installation. I will be replacing the awful laminate left in some bedrooms by the prior owner with oak and was wondering about whether to float it or glue it down (rooms are 5mx4m...

This year plan to get my halls/stairs all sorted out so they have a consistent flooring etc. I need to replace the floor in one and will do that first but am not sure what to do next the floors need tiling, the walls doing and I need the a banister installing, this will have to be custom made...

Cheers WoodYouLike, I will go and clean the brush then. I could not see any real patchiness after the first coat and will check it out once this one has dried. I think I applied it pretty evenly just very thinly, it's a matt finish and the wood was consistently darkened. Thank you Nic

Following the excellent advice of WoodULike et al I sanded down my oak floor and applied two coats of hardwax oil. Following the adage that thinner is better I have some (more than I should) left. The floor is 36 square metres and I expected to use a tin and a bit to complete it. Having just...