flooring

Am putting in 18mm ply with 8mm click vinyl surface, looking for an 8mm edge trim to go along the btm of this sliding door, just under the window frame btm, it's a bit tight for clearance at the right hand end but gets better to the left. Reveal is 2525 skim to skim. There is a 2.5m Dial 8mm...

Hi, I've spent the last week taking up old floor tiles in my kitchen, about 100 in total. It was a really tough job as they were impossible to get up. I hired a medium breaker to help with the job. I now have old adhesive at various levels across the kitchen. What is the most efficient way to...

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...

Hi all, I'm about to lay the 110mm soil pipe needed to route my kitchen sink, washing machine etc. to the main drain, before pouring the slab for the base of my new floor. I was planning on having bends vertically up through the slab in order to connect to 40mm waste pipe etc. Would welcome...

We have painted floorboards throughout our victorian terraced house. We are planning an extension which will make the back of the house a very large open plan space (roughly 7m x 7m). Without much available wall space for radiators, UFH looks like the best way to heat it. I've noted that there...

Washing machine makes loud knocking noise on 1400 spins (transport bolts are out and machine is level) I have 12mm laminate on 5mm foam underlay in the kitchen to which the washing machine sits. The rear of the laminate where it reaches the back wall is somewhat 'bouncy' and i believe this is...

I’m building a new home. I went in to check on the progress and I noticed they started to put in my laminate plank flooring. I asked them if they leveled the concrete and they said no. They said they were not informed it should have been leveled and for me to call the builder and affirm they...

I am going to tile the bathroom floor but have a question about flooring. Most of the floor is screed on block and beam, then under the dpm in the picture is the original brickwork exterior wall and then about 12inches of timber floorboards. it was originallly covered in 6mm ply which i intended...

Hi. I was going to put laminate over the existing (awful) tiles in our soon to be utility room. However, there is a toilet in the room and closer inspection shows that the previous owners have already put ceramic tiles over the original vinyl floor tiles, this is evident from the way that the...

Not long before we have a carpet fitted (with underlay) in our front bedroom once plastering and decorating completed - normal floorboards with a small void (where you can see some dust, debris and wiring) between this room and the lounge underneath. Does anyone know if you need to 'fill' gaps...

Hi all, I have just purchased a bungalow. It's in need of a full renovation but just doing the planning now. I am wanting to install word flooring (or LVT) throughout as I think it makes a place look bigger. I have seen some really lovely parquet LVT and engineered wood floors and wondering if...

A cottage we lived in for a while, and which we now let to a tenant, used to have an under-floor heating element above the original floorboards, on which was a layer of quarry tiles. The element was connected to an electronic controller, and has always worked well. Now the tenant has decided to...

Hi, I'm planning to utilise my basement space (previously a garage) however I'm in need of creating some additional ceiling height - especially where currently positioned there is an RSJ. In summary, I want to remove it, and replace with wood in a similar arrangement to the rest of the house...

Hi, We need to do kitchen flooring with new porcelin tiles. The kitchen currently have existing tiles which needs to be removed. My question is, with kitchen in use (BAU) how do we go about this project? All the other storage cabinates can be removed (and things can be stored in temp. storage...

Hi All. We are looking at re-doing the flooring over the next couple of weeks. Current We currently have a beige carpet which between crazy nephews and nieces that can't sit still with food and a cat that loves to pick at the carpet now needs to be changed after 4 years. What Hallway and Open...

I am laying some engineered oak flooring, and am deciding on which direction to lay the boards. It for my master bedroom, which has a small walk-in wardrobe which I will continue the flooring into. The room is east facing. Here are a couple of photos. This photo is the view from the door...

Hi I fell out with the guy who was meant to fit my karndean floor in my kitchen. He said my floor couldn't be made flatter, and it had 8cm undulations. I levelled it with fibre self levelling compound from mapei, and now it's much better. I have karndean opus planks. They reccomend using...

I am putting down new floors in a downstairs WC (tile) and adjoining hallway (12mm laminate). I was looking at transitions between the two and was really hoping to achieve a really minimalist finish like the attached pic Is this possible with laminate flooring that is essentially 'floating'...

Is it the tiles or the bitumen used to stick the tiles down that is the DPM? We have Marley tiles in our 1957 bungalow. Some of the tiles are broken & some are loose especially near the skirting board where carpet gripper has been removed. We can see bitumen underneath the tiles. We want to fit...

Over time I've noticed this lump forming in just one area of our floor... First I thought it would be a leaking pipe but there's no piping under that part and our boiler hasnt experienced any pressure drops. I believe this concrete floor was laid down like 30 years ago. Any idea what it could...