floor

Hi all I'm really stressed trying to figure out how to move ahead with this issue. Paid contractors to do it originally but they let me down massively I am currently renovating a bathroom and need to sister existing floor joists to support the additional weight of a new bathtub. I am looking...

Hi, I've paid to have LVT glue down put down, with the floor fitter putting down latex on top of plywood (on top of chipboard then a suspended timber floor). Most of it is fine, but there is a significant dip in one area (typically in what will be a much-used walkway). I had pointed this out...

Hey there Due to the clusterf*ck that was the builders who built our extension (whole other story), I've been left which thus threshold that needs to be levelled with the rest of the floor. The door is installed on the outer skin of block work, and there's then 100mm concrete and a 50mm...

I am rerouting some 15mm cold water copper pipes under my suspended timber floor. As I am running insulation between the joists, I have found the best way to route these would be through ventilation openings in sleeper walls. I am planning to lag the pipes and support them with talon clips...

Hi, We are doing the final parts of our renovation and unfortunately had a leak in a stud wall due to a faulty join that we think went overnight the first night the boiler was left on. It has left the patches of wet you see here, so have had to strip everything out and am getting some equipment...

I'm in the process of purchasing a bungalow with an extension. The bungalow was built in 1975, the extension in 1994. I noticed a vertical crack in the render and in the brickwork below where the extension joins the main house. Difficult to say the width of the crack as small chunks of render...

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 all, just created a page to ask a question! We have just bought our first home and are very happy. However the neighbour has told us that the bath fell through into the kitchen a while ago and that was the reason they renovated to the standard it's at now. There is a brand new kitchen and...

Hi, thanks in advance for any advice. When we had a new front door installed, we also removed a low wall that previously sat beneath a window. This has left a hole in the floor, which is part of the cavity wall. I now need to fill this hole up to floor level in preparation for applying Mapei...

In my small bedroom, there’s a built-in cupboard above the bulkhead. It’s quite large, and I’m in the process of cleaning it out and repainting. However, the flooring inside is just bare floorboards, and I’m not a fan of how they look, especially since I plan to use the cupboard for storing...

Hello My wife and I currently have a builder insulating a suspended timber floor. The builder has put a membrane down called Protect A1, which I read online is non-breathable. Will this be a problem? There’s still ventilation on the side where the membrane hangs down. Is there anything I can...

Right, I will try to be brief but I really don't want to cause issues later with condensate and associated damage to timbers / mould etc. Competent DIY'er but just cautious. Photo attached for reference. Please excuse the primitive drawing, it's clearly not to scale!! So we live in a two story...

I need to raise the height of the concrete porch floor. It’s 1.7m by 1.3m and is currently about 70mm below the height of the rest of the house, but this does vary a little bit. The tiles and adhesive that I’m going to fit will take up about 13mm, so need to raise it between 50 and 60mm. I was...

We are covering our garage and have painted a liquid DPM. We then plan on adding 50mm of celotex to the floor, with some timber supports in places around doors and where gym equipment will be as we've read this is suggested. We can't seem to find any specific details though on how we construct...

Hello, I have 150sq.m of liquid screed floor (70mm thick, poured about 3 months ago, laitance removed) with liquid UFH (first switched on - low heat - yesterday!), and I'm planning to install an engineered hardwood floor over it. I've had a couple of conflicting opinions from fitters: Fitter 1...

Hi, Long term reader, first time poster here. I've recently moved in to a ground floor flat in a Victorian house. The floor in one of the rooms was particularly squeaky so I decided to have a look over the weekend. This is what I found underneath, below the carpet and the 18mm plywood floor. No...

Hello - I have hit a bit of a problem renovating my bathroom, the subfloor is rotten by the wall and the damaged piece of subfloor runs underneath the stud wall (isn’t damaged on the other side of the wall) would anyone be able to recommend the best way to fix this? it’s eventually going to be...

I am renovating our kitchen and dining room in an old Victorian property. The floorboards look good and I want to restore them, which I'm totally ok with, but there are small areas (eg. around the old fireplace and at an extension area) where there's concrete floor. I was thinking of tiling...

Hi! We have recently had bifold doors installed along with a new wooden step, however this has led to a gap between the floor and the step which is filled with expanding foam (the previous owners didn’t do a great job installing the flooring). What would be the best way to fill this? I was...

Hi there! I'm new to the forum, and i wanted to get some advice. Several years ago, I helped my parents make an epoxy coated pebble patio for her back yard and the end result was absolutely gorgeous, and held up surprisingly well even through loads of rain (and one earthquake). I'm going to be...