flooring

Hello everyone, I hope this is quite an easy question. I have recently bought a house with a wooden walled lean-to wrapping around half of one wall and extending like an L around a further wall - with the long wall abutting the garden. The whole thing is badly made and needs pulling down and...

Hi all. We recently moved into this house and noticed a strange raised patch in the bathroom floor. The tiles seem well sealed and stable and there is no obvious leak. We rarely use the bath. I am wondering if this is harmess, like a poorly evened floor, or something more sinister. The previous...

Hello All, I need some advice. In my front room we currently have laminate click flooring. We moved in during last summer and during the winter we realised the temperate dropped massively. We noticed that the cold was coming threw the flooring due to half of the living room being on top of...

I'm converting a car port which has a concrete base; the base isn't exactly flat, am thinking of putting engineered click over 3/4" structural ply, on batten/decking pedestals. I thought that pedestals would take the faff out of getting it level. There will be a damp course. I thought that...

Hi, I recently had a visit from a guy off my builder and was told that to get rid of the damp in the walls i must replace the concrete floor in each room for a timber one seeing as this once was a property that once had a timber floor throughout. I asked if it was possible just to run a channel...

Evening Ladies and Gents. I moves into a house with a garage conversion and have been renovating from what the previous owners did. For the flooring they had installed carpet laid over hardboard, however there were signs that the hardboard had become damp over time. In order to improve upon...

A bit of advise please. We've laid a new oak floor in the living room which has been stained and then 2 coats of OSMO polyx oil added. After a week we've as careful as possible tried to put our furniture back in but any slight scrape on the floor is resulting in white flakes coming up from the...

Hi I am going to be installing the first floor joists and boards on my house extension and have a question about access! :unsure: After the joists are installed I intended to install the floor t&g boards on top which is all great, although how would I gain access to my new floor when it's...

Hi, We have had an extension built and are having the layout of the house completey changed so thought it would be a good time to install underfloor heating. I'm a boiler guy by trade but have never installed UFH but it doesn't seem too complicated. Firstly I assume that in the new extension...

Hi, all I was thinking of putting down solid oak Parquet flooring. I currently have particle board subfloor. I know I need to put overlay the floor first. My question is could I use 3.5mm - 5.5mm Plywood sheets screwed down to the particular board. or do I have to use 6mm. Also what type would I...

Help or recommendations desperately needed!! I have tiles on my kitchen floor of which some have broken-long story. I decided I wanted to place lino on top of the tiles so I removed the loose broken tiles and cemented the hole left behind. I have since had lino fitted and today I have had to...

Hi, We recently had a wall removed between kitchen and lounge. The space left behind (previously occupied by the wall) was filled with a cement mixture to level it with the laminate in the kitchen (don't ask!). There is a 'step up' to the carpet (see photo). We're now struggling for ideas how...

Hi, I have a bit of a conundrum with how to tackle my floor. I have a large kitchen/diner/utility on the gound floor - approx 30m2 This part of the house was renovated and extended about 15 years ago, when doing so the previous owners had underfloor heating put in, and then tiled with...

Does anyone have any good ideas for 1st floor flooring that is relatively easy to lift and get access to the voids between the joists? I originally considered just getting new, screwed-down floorboards (existing boards are sound enough but quite rough and knackered visually) that I would then...

Are kitchen units supposed to go in 1st and then the click vinyl gets cut in around it, or does the click go down wall to wall and the units go on top?

Glued down lino is definitely not an option, hateful stuff to change. B&Q do click vinyl, but it only clicks properly along it's length, quite a few poor reviews too. Does anyone know of a good brand, maybe that uses HDF, fits together well, and won't chip if a kid drops a Tonka on it? Of a...

I have an upstairs galley kitchen, sadly the stud wall between it and the lounge is mid-wayish between floor joists - you should just be able to make out staggered lost-heads to the left of the door frame. Some 18mm click flooring to continue floor level from top of t&g, with maybe a recessed in...

We've had to replace all the floors in our house, as part of a renovation. They have been constructed using 100mm insulation and there is UFH laid within new concrete slabs. However, there is no top screed, just the concrete slab itself on which to lay the final flooring. My concern is that the...

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...

Our never ending joy of a previous DIY "enthusiast" kitchen has brought us another present. Looking to replace the flooring (laminate vinyl) but it has been fitted underneath the units (great idea right?). Really we are looking for the easiest way out and our hope is that cutting around the...