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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...

Hi guys I am in need of an urgent help :( We've got a new built house and due to all the costs to get it we've ended up a bit toooo tight with cash hence I'm doing any extra work needs doing by myself. I am usually open to all basic diy jobs but never tiled before. I've installed the plywood on...

Hello, I'm new here and a total amateur so please forgive anything daft I say below! We had a very well rated carpet installer fit our landing and stairs with carpet last week, we purchased the carpet for a local carpet shop for him to fit and he provided everything else (underlay, vinyl etc)...

Hi everyone, I need to raise a garage floor that is sloping. The floor currently is concrete and I want to build up with insulation boards and then concrete screed. Lowest end needs to be raised 180mm and shallow end by 125mm. What is the best thickness boards and screed to achieve this? Do I...

I am planning to compact mot type 1 to 100mm thickness for a conservatory Base, however 70% of area is already covered in paving slabs. My question is, should I remove the paving slabs and other Brockenhurst bricks before laying mot type 1? Or should I just compact it over the slabs and other...

Hi all, I have lived in my a 1950's semi for 20 years and finally decided to investigate the cause of the small patches on walls and raised carpet. No mould, just shading of a few places on walls that haven't really changed in the years but as I decorated at the beginning of the year with a...

Hi all, New to the forum but just about to commence a full refurb on a house. Need a bit of advice on whether it is possible to lay slate tiles in our soon to be created, knocked through, kitchen diner. The sub floors differ so I wonder if anyone has encountered a similar issue. The kitchen...

Hi All Some advice would be appreciated. We are doing a full refurbish on our house at the moment, fitting underfloor heating throughout amongst a lot of other work. All the stud walls and rotten chipboard floors have been removed on the first floor in preparation for the new layout. The new...

Hi All, I need to level the flooring for the new hearth, which I remove from the previous extended hearth that goes lower than the floor level. Any advise what cement should i used to level it before i place the hearth. And by looking at the picture the next thing i should do is to level the...

What glue should I use for joining Tongue & Groove Engineered Wood Flooring? EWF for approx. 15mm thick and will be installed as a floating floor (installed on typical water-resistant underlay). Sub-floor is concrete and relatively flat. Thank you

Hi All, I have a concrete floor which is pretty uneven, full of steep local dips and rises of more than 12mm, and far from level. I will be levelling it with latex or something, as it needs to be approaching SR1 for the floor covering. Some of the floor is newly laid (replacing excavated bit)...

Hi all Hope to obtain some advice on the following: In our first floor flat the kitchen floor is quite uneven and has a slope. The height difference between one end and the other is 2". The surface is concrete and has some cracks in the middle. We've investigated by removing some concrete and...

hi, I've got a 1950's house, it had a few small rooms on the ground floor with parquet (fairly low quality wood, badly fitted). Previous owner removed some of the walls to make the place more open plan, all good. The problem is that the rooms floors were laid individually so there are a few...

I have a wet underfloor heating system installed between joists in a 1930's house. The heating system itself works. The issue is with the subfloor.... The builder installed insulation between the joists, then clipped the pipes to the insulation as seems to be the standard approach. He then...

We've finally agreed a price to get or garage roof trusses replaced with rafters which is being completed next week. But this has come out quick a bit more expensive than originally planned so i am looking to insulate and board up the garage myself. I have read lots of posts about the best way...

Hello all, Just started renovating my new property and I have a couple of questions about the floor: - as per the photo attached, it seems like it has a concrete base (it seems like concrete blocks or something, judging by the dividing line in the photo?) and then some sort of screed mix on...

Hi all, Any information or help with this would be really appreciated. My wife and I just bought an old council flat, 50s construction, on an upper storey. The floor is a concrete slab, there's another flat beneath it. Neighbour says that flats used to be floored with tiles throughout, is...

I have this hatch in my floor and i am about to apply wooden floor. The floor is 1,1 cm/11 mm tall and i want to find a solution so the gap between the hatch and the flooring wont be that big. The hatch opens over halfway - over 90° which also means that the gap gets even bigger. But it seems...

Hiya, I've just bought a place and it's got no alarm system. I urgently require a wired alarm that I can install myself to cover the whole of ground floor as well as the garage. I have some basic education of installing an alarm, but I'd rather be sceptical and say that I know very little...

So I have a very creaky set of floorboards. My plan is to take carpets up, remove nails, screw down (avoiding plumbing electric etc), lay 3.2mm hardboard (aware of wetting, etc), nail down with 20mm ring nails and put the carpet back down. My questions are about the edges and the thresholds...