bitumen

Hi all, Looking for some help! We have recently bought a circa 1930s ex council house. Minimal DIY experience between us. We want to tile hallway and kitchen and have wood flooring. We ripped up the carpet and found this horrible brown floor. Tested for asbestos - it’s not. Builders think...

Hi, looking for a bit of advice please regarding the flooring in our 1960s house. We moved in to our renovation project recently and we are looking to move the kitchen into a kitchen/diner room at the rear. After lifting the carpet/underlay in the room that will form the kitchen, we discovered...

I am starting a garage conversion and part of it will be a bathroom with shower. approx 4 sqm floor space. All 4 sides of the new bathroom will lead to other rooms so I think it is best to install an extraction fan which vents up and out of the flat roof. House was built approx 1970 and I...

Hi all, I have an upstairs bay window that has bitumen painted underneath it (I assume to prevent damp) and then been wallpapered directly on top and it looks god awful. Its single skin so I want to insulate and board. Can I stick insulation directly to the bitumen with foam and then board and...

I am having some work done to lower the ground height around my house and have filled the old air bricks in (white bricks on photo) as my internal floors are concrete with a DPM. My question is should I Bitumen over the lower 2 courses of bricks (once the weather improves and the brick work...

I have a concrete floor which has some bitumen or asphalt type flooring. It has cracked in some corners - see pic. How do I repair this?

Hi, I recently bought a 3 bed built in 1960. I started gutting the place and pulled up what I now know to be Marley tiles. What I’m being told is I’ve essentially removed the dpm. I’m wondering if using a vapour barrier under my new laminate will be sufficient or is it more serious? Any help...

I'm putting corrugated bitumen sheets on the roof of a garden building. The roof is a pent design, with a pitch of 10 degrees, and is boarded with 18mm osb. Is it recommended to put a breather membrane on the osb before laying the bitumen sheets? Thanks

Just noticed I have a leak from my flat roof right in the corner of the room. Need a temp method of repair to stem the ingress of water. Weather is foggy and damp, it's a north facing garden and I hear a asteroid is about to hit my location. Putting aside the asteroid disaster for a minute...

hello folks, im trying to decide what the best way is to tile over hard wood floor, one option i have got is to lay a layer of bitumen over the hard wood as a water proofing membrane (to vaoid the tiles from cracking over time due to flexibility and humidity of the wood) and then adding adhesive...

I have a garage which is built with the walls sitting on the concrete slab, with a DPC at floor level, single skin brick. Parts of the walls are below ground, when it rains water seeps through the DPC. I've dug out and exposed one side and will cut back the DPC as close to the brick joint as...

Hello, I’m planing and laying click flooring on our ground floor. I intend to screed to get a good level using NA. Most of the ground floor are marley tiles. I’m planning on either screeding over the tiles or remove, depending on how easy they come up. ( I’m aware of the asbestos issues and...

So, after starting a job today it soon turned into something else so thought I'd get the views of people on here. I live in a 1840's stone built end terrace. The previous owner has converted the basement but it leaks and the walls are often damp so it clearly hasn't worked. I'd love to rip...

Would a bituminous roofing felt adhesive be suitable for priming a (cut) tarmac edge, before laying some cold repair tarmac down adjacent to it? It has to be a better job if a primer or edge sealant is used but the spray-on stuff is quite pricey. I was thinking of using something like...

Hello, we have recently purchases a house that was built in the 50s and have had an asbestos survey done. The survey has revealed that the bitumen in the kitchen/diner area contains asbestos (Chrysotile)….. please advise on what I should do now. I really want to pull the grotty lino up but...

Hey there, I'm after some advice on replacing the roof on our block-built double garage. The existing roof appears to be constructed of Tin Corrugated sheets, which have well and truly had their time, with lots of holes all over the place. The roof is approx 4.8m at the widest point x 6m...

Planning on using a torch on cap sheet direct to fresh osb without using the recommended underlay...is this a bad idea? If the cap sheet is bitumen backed and therefore fully water proof and has good adhesion to the osb I'm struggling to work out what the underlay actually does...unless I'm...

hi all I have just laid a self levelling compound onto my old kitchen floor. Some of the old low levels were as low as 25mm from the highest point so I bought 16 bags of 25mm (up to) latex self levelling compound. The area to cover is 16 square meters. I think I haven't put enough down as the...

Hi all, Yesterdays storm caused the flat roof to leak in various places, I actually made a hole where it was dripping in the living room ceiling and loads of water poured out. Going to put a tarp sheet over it for now with some bricks to hopefully keep most of the water out. Only a few months...

I want to convert an attached garage into a utility room, having done quite abit of research on the forum and else where online. I wanted a few peoples opinions/thoughts on it if possible. Being a new build I can only presume that it will have been built with cavity trays in place, so am I...