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I am getting conflicting advice from suppliers and installers about installing an engineered wood floor (18mm, with a 4mm hardwood top layer) over a concrete floor with underfloor heating. The manufacturer video shows the installer simply glueing the tongues and groves over a vapour proof...

I have a wall in my lounge which is partly ( up to 1,5m) underground which had been dry but which had to be striped following a flood in the room from another source. The coursed rubble wall had been injected with a chemical DPC at 100mm intervals vertically and horizontally into the...

Is parquet suitable for use in the kitchen? I am sure I have seen old Victorian kitchens with parquet flors buit wondered what the limitations are?

I have an injected chemical damp course in an old sandstone house. During recent floods the house was submerged for an extended period to a depth of about 4 inches and we now have to strip out , dry and replaster I was wondering what damage might have been caused to the damp course...

Evening! I have just had the outside of my old sandstone house repointed with a lime mortar. When we bought the house 4 years ago the surveyor highlighted the erosion being caused to the stone by the weather and this led in part to the need for repointing after the sandstone around the...

We were flooded in the recent storms. Only about 2-3 inches of clear water but it ran through the house for 2 days. The insurance company sent a guy out with a damp meter who was registering 'very high' (ie off his damp meter scale) mositure content up to about 1.2-1.4 meters in some of the...

We have a 25mm thick bitumen or Synthaprufe floor (according to the building regs. notes) in our lounge. It is a very hard, quite brittle floor (judging by the way bits came up with the nail when I pulled out the nails holding the carpet gripper rods). During the recent floods we ended up...