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Hi, We are doing the final parts of our renovation and unfortunately had a leak in a stud wall due to a faulty join that we think went overnight the first night the boiler was left on. It has left the patches of wet you see here, so have had to strip everything out and am getting some equipment...

I’m currently re-doing the living room of a house we’ve recently moved in to. The room has laminate flooring and in the middle of the room a roughly 3.2m x 2.1m section of carpet (I assume to give the impression of a rug). The laminate runs through in the the hallway and in to another room...

Hi there! I'm looking for advice on underfloor heating, or for people to tell me if the following is not a good idea. I have a house from 1981, uninsulated concrete slab + bitumen painted DPM + 50–60mm screed. We want to retrofit UFH on the ground open plan floor (40 sq m) but the ceilings are...

What order is preferred for walls and screed (with UFH)? I'm using a wet UFH system with 75mm screed over membrane and PIR insulation (PIR is already laid). I have a stud wall (plasterboard over OSB over timber frame) that needs to go in. I can see this going 2 ways: Walls first - makes the...

I'm preparing an area for wet UFH system. The insulation is down, and I'm considering laying a 'decoupling membrane' by Laminon (which helpfully has a grid printed on it to align the pipework to) prior to pipe fitting and screeding. It's sold in 1.2m wide rolls, so will have joints - I...

Hello all! We bought our house with the garage already converted many years prior to our purchase in 2018. The garage was originally a double garage, half of the garage was converted to a room in 2003. Room is 5.46m by 2.55m The partition wall looks like breeze block, out side normal red...

I need to raise the height of the concrete porch floor. It’s 1.7m by 1.3m and is currently about 70mm below the height of the rest of the house, but this does vary a little bit. The tiles and adhesive that I’m going to fit will take up about 13mm, so need to raise it between 50 and 60mm. I was...

Hello, I have 150sq.m of liquid screed floor (70mm thick, poured about 3 months ago, laitance removed) with liquid UFH (first switched on - low heat - yesterday!), and I'm planning to install an engineered hardwood floor over it. I've had a couple of conflicting opinions from fitters: Fitter 1...

Good afternoon, We have recently bought a 1960s bungalow which has an uninsulated raft foundation. I am looking at whether it is worth removing the old screed and adding insulation before re-screeding. The problem I have is that I don't know the depth of the existing screed. Is the only option...

House renovation with new extension New Floor / oversight on new extended room Replacement floor on existing part of house , with new oversight /membrane. Floor being hacked up Underfloor heating within new screed on all ground floor on one level Assuming Finished floor levels are correct and...

Hello, I have attempted to lay my extension sand and cement screed. On the whole it is not a total disaster however it is 20mm higher in one corner (in comparison to the opposite corner 5 metres away). Is there any way I can sand/grind this section down? Unfortunately self levelling compound...

Hi - I’ve built a suspended block and beam terrace to sit below patio doors. Plan is to tile onto this using same tiles as inside - 900x600x25 limestone tiles and tiles will end up flush with doorstep. I’ve built a fall away from house into the block and beam but not sure it’s enough (it’s...

We have opened up an old fireplace in an upstairs bedroom (it’s a Victorian house) and we’re now prepping the room for new skirting boards and carpet, but need to fix the hearth area first. I assume I need to lift out the remnants of the crumbly old hearth surround first, but how do I create a...

We've had a bit of a nightmare with getting a floor that is suitable for a level finish (carpet tiles in our case) which has dragged on since August. Our extension, internal dimensions 9.7m by 5.1m, has a block and beam construction. The room is going to hold a full size snooker table at one...

Hello My garage floor already is already concrete. I want to put 100mm PIR Insulation and was told to put 50mm screed on top. I need to put a bit more, as in 100mm screed. is this ok or will it be too heavy? Or can i put 150mm pir insulaton and then 50mm screed? Suggest i put on concrete...

Hello is there a rule for the maximum thickness of screed i should use? My garage conversion has around 20cm concrete. I am going to put 100mm PIR insulation on top of the DPM. how thick can i apply the screed? 50mm?

Hi I’ve just pulled up the carpet and underlay in the dining room before some new wood flooring goes down next week and found that a piece of screed in the corner of the room is badly cracked / damaged. The piece looks like it’s separated from the rest of the screed and I can push it down...

Hi all, I’m looking for advice on a particularly tricky situation we’re having with our cellar (end of terrace 1880s Victorian house). We moved in 7 years ago and although everything in the cellar was slightly raised (insinuating there may have been previous flooding), we didn’t have any...

I have had a new flow screed put down in my extension. It was a cementitious screed, that went down as a liquid, with a fully tanked membrane underneath. It was a couple of months ago so it is fully dry but obviously I will be checking this before putting flooring down. The screed has a very...

I am in the process of converting my 8.5m x 3m garage into a home workshop. The floor is old concrete and dips ~25mm in the middle. My plan so far was: - fix up any cracks and dodgy bits in the current concrete floor - lay a liquid dpm - finish with a self levelling compound I spoke to...