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Hi all, picture above is of my floor in one of my rooms. As you can see it has some indentations and looks worn. I'd like to know the best approach to covering such indentations and then I'd like to try and bring the floor back to life a little on a budget. Would i use a staining product on the...

Hi All hope someone can help! We intend to screed the ground floor of our house at the weekend. With regards to the kitchen, do we screed upto and lay flooring to the kick boards or go slightly under? Also do we need any underlay for LVP click flooring? Thanks in advance!

Hi Ive search in lots of places but cant find a definitive answer to reassure me. I have some concerns about the base of the new garden room I am having built by some builders. It seems a bit cowboyish to me. The new room sits where the old shed and patio is. So the wooden base half sits on a...

Hi, I want to fix up this old shed.. I think the side has had leaves pile up from the trees, the bottom tongue and groove panel is totally rotten. The one above probably needs replacing too. They sell some the right size at B&Q? Inside the ceiling is all black - but doesn't seem rotten, but...

Hi, Hopefully I'll be at the point where I've fixed my bedroom floors and can lay the gripper rods soon.. Issue is all three bedrooms have old hearths - apparently you still need gripper rods on top. Two of the hearths have beautiful original tiles, I don't intend to do anything with them...

Hi Guys, looking to tile my new kitchen floor, however, have come across a hickup, There is a very large hole in the concrete floor from wall to wall which has collapsed slightly. I don't know why this has happened though my suspicion is that the builder who did my extension years ago knew...

Hi, I have built a small block based workshop in my garden (project here). The floor is concrete laid on hardcore / building sand / dpm. What would be a good method to finish off the floor. I was about to lay a sharp sand / cement screed coat (5:1) and then paint with a grey 2 part epoxy (I...

So far I've put down over 5mm ontop of what was required to level due to not getting a decent finish. I'm at the point of possibly hiring a floor grinder https://www.hss.com/hire/p/htc-gl270-grinder, they're not cheap & theres no guarantee it'll look good. Should I: 1. Hire the floor grinder...

Basically I wonder if anybody could give me any tips on making my loft space into a nice clean usable area. First of all I am not putting in any stairs I am still going to be using the existing loft ladder the space up in the loft is very large indeed I was hoping it would be okay to keep the...

I'm going to replace the chipboards on my landing as they are a complete mess after being taken up twice and a bodge repair by the previous owner. As you can see in the photo below, there's a piece of 22mm stuck in there when the rest seems to be 18mm around it (400mm centres on the joists...

I've recently moved into a new house. It's amazing in lots of ways (1860s ex Coach House with tonnes of character), but has had little work done to it since the 1980s. We maxed out to buy it really and so have been planning on doing it up gradually and doing as much DIY as possible. We recently...

I have a dark solid wood floor in my hallway. Recently I've had to do a bit of filling and sanding of the walls and ceiling in the hallway, and unfortunately, despite my best efforts, some of the very fine plaster dust has got into the grain in the wood floor, leaving a white "bloom" in certain...

There are gaps in the concrete floor just inside the front door of my house - and a pale blue sheet of plastic (which is, I suppose, a damp-proof course) is by no means intact. Here is an overview: The size of the gaps is shown by the two pound coin that can (just) be seen in the next three...

Hi all, hopefully someone can set me straight! I've got a load of solid oak parquet flooring, that had wax applied about eight years when it was put down. Although I stay on top of sweeping, and occasionally vacuuming, it's time to give it a proper clean as it's looking a bit grubby. It...

Hi all, Coated my wood floor with Osmo Wood Wax Extra Thin Hardwax Oil this morning. Waited an hour as it was dry and the wood had sucked up the oil and applied a second coat, as per instructions. Now however, it's an uneven finish which doesn't look great. When I do a 'scratch' test on the...

Hi, I would like to lay a new floor covering in the first floor bedroom in our victorian terrace. The problem is that the 5x2 floor joists (actual size 120mm x 60mm) are at 800mm centres with no noggins and span roughly 2.4m. Ideally I would make the structure better in order to accommodate...

Hi, I have a varying depth, uneven but overall thin gap between a stone floor and enginnered laminate wood flooring, both sections laid on screed with underfloor heating. The gap is too narrow to fit a T-bar and I don't want to drill into the floor as the undefloor heating pipes are close to the...

Hi, I've got a lot of sound travelling from upstairs to downstairs in my house even though we've got carpet insulation so we've had a sound report done. They have recommended we install acoustic underlay Regupol...

Hi all. My 1st floor bedroom floor is wonky. Drops unto 40mm from edge to centre - looks like bowed joists. I'm loathe to sister each joists with new timber and someone suggested just shimming the joists - add a strip of wood to the top of each joist with varying thickness to create a level...

Hi Not sure if this is the place to ask. I am trying work out the difference in price between a suspended floor and block and beam. It's for an area just over 30m square. The reason being: we are having an extension built and the builders persuaded us to go with a suspended floor rather than...