floor

My new shed is needing a suitable floor covering for its intended purpose - exercise bike, treadmill and weights (if there's space). Popular opinion seems to be some form of rubber floor, either in tiles or sheet-roll, which I'd agree appears to be durable, cleanable, nonslip and water...

Has anyone done this or got any thoughts on it? Not to use as bare floorboards but if planning a suspended timber floor with laminate or engineered wood as the eventual finish they look very price competitive compared to chipboard, not to mention easier to put down & far more resilient in damp...

How much would it cost to dig/create out a conversation pit 2.5x1.5x0.5m in the ground floor of a house?

Hello everyone, There is no mention specifically about SLC over polyethylene paints. The general consensus of leveling over paint is a no no as the adhesion is not there. I have a large area of floor that needs levelling out slightly to get rid of the ridges in the laid concrete. The concrete...

Hey everyone! I am building a concrete block shed, or rarher two sharing one wall. Each one a bit smaller than 7x5 meters. I am about to pour foundation, 60cm deep, 30cm thick and take the blocks from there until i get a bit over the ground level. Next i will want to lay a concrete slab within...

hi all, i have a shed that i want to convert into an office. i am planning on doing the floors first and they currently look like in the pictures attached. how can i get the floor flat? i know nothing about building but would like to give it a go on project like this. thanks!

Hi, Would be nice to put some boards down for storage in this Victorian roof space and be able to move around, store Christmas decorations and other stuff. It's at the back above my sons bedroom, accessed from a hatch on the landing - headroom in centre is about 5', there is no lighting. The...

Hi. I am wanting to level the floor where I will be installing a multi-fuel stove on a hearth. The depth in the opening is approx 2-3cm and then surrounding area is the depth of parquet flooring approx 1cm. Was thinking of a mix of sharp sand and cement for the deeper bit (that maybe exposed to...

The (4m long) stud sole is fixed thru the membrane, the fixing holes are sealed. Is it wiser to fix the lower horiz. boards raised up slightly, off the membrane to prevent membrane damage? Or do boards need support along the lower edge, provided by the floor? Thanks, Dain

Hi, Just removed my old T&G plank and at the beginning I though that below I had a very strong Concrete flooring but this is not the case. I made few trial hole and the drill bits goes in like a soft cream and what come out is a black soil. the all flooring does not sound very strong and my...

New tiles on bathroom floor, a couple of days old. The floor tiles are not perfectly level but very close. I've noticed the grout is several mm below tile level, between tiles and at some wall area. It is deeply ressessed where the wall and floor tiles meet and missing behind soil pipe. Also...

Hi all. I had a squeaky uneven upstairs bedroom floor that seemed to go downhill at one end. I removed old t&g floor to find the room straddled the wall between utility room and the garage. The top of the breeze blocks being higher than the top of the joists. So am now a bit puzzled as to how to...

I have sound insulated my wooden floor using MuteMat 3 and the flanking strip that comes with it. However my contractor left a part which is not part of the wall (therefore there is no skirting board) that touches the wardrobe without the strip, and I realized the other day that there is light...

Hey all I'm in the process of renovating the living room of our 1900 built Victorian end-terrace. When I went into the project, I knew that I'd probably find some issues with the floor as there were a few soft spots. I'd also planned to pull and replace all of the floorboards in order to...

I'm putting a horned threshold(cill) in the bottom of a new door frame, because there's a step down from the hallway. And I'd like tiles in the hall, to back of cill. Do 330x300 floor tile thicknesses vary much? What is standard grout thickness? I need to set the cill top at the right...

Hi everyone. I recently posted about the flooring in my bathroom. Previous owner states there was some water damage leading to swelling of the floor. I have noticed over the past few months that the swelling is extending, particularly along the seams. I am not very good with DIY, so I am...

ive had a leaking sink waste for some time, only just found out. The ground floor is completely tiled and laminate floor and I am wondering whether it would be better to be part carpeted to help it breathe more ? Thanks

Hi, I am laying a new laminate floor in one of the bedrooms and have just lifted the old carpet and had my first look of the tongue and groove flooring. Some of the tongue and groove joints are very loose and when walked on sag and cause the floor to creak slightly - in the extreme cases the...

I have some floor trim/beading to go around my new laminate floor, but I'm struggling to get a nice 45° degree angle. I have a mitre saw which has 45° setting but the trim is not flat so I can't get the angle to be flush. Skotia edge by barnsley7 posted 8 Dec 2019 at 3:18 PM Skotia trim by...

Hi, My partner and I are having an extension on the back of our house and we would like UFH throughout the downstairs. Most UFH systems I have found aren’t the best for wooden floorboards and the floor height would raise substantially, so I was wondering about the feasibility of replacing the...