We've spent a lot of time and money doing up a 150 yr old cottage. We put an oak flooring in two of the adjoining rooms downstairs and this was laid on top of concrete on batons. One of the concrete floors had a dpm I put in, but this got compromised by the flooring company (I now know!). The other concrete floor was there already, but I suspect has no DPM.
A damp company has taken the wooden floor out because it was all found to be rotten and we have quite a bad damp problem. They now say both concrete floors need to be dug up, DPM, new concrete then new floor.
Is there another way? What would happen if we just put plastic on top of the existing concrete and then floated moisture resistant flooring on top of that? Whilst I understand that ideally it's a new conrete floor, I can't help thinking that the house has stood like this for 150 years and maybe we're going overboard?
Any experience/thoughts greatly received - it's not a happy household this end!
A damp company has taken the wooden floor out because it was all found to be rotten and we have quite a bad damp problem. They now say both concrete floors need to be dug up, DPM, new concrete then new floor.
Is there another way? What would happen if we just put plastic on top of the existing concrete and then floated moisture resistant flooring on top of that? Whilst I understand that ideally it's a new conrete floor, I can't help thinking that the house has stood like this for 150 years and maybe we're going overboard?
Any experience/thoughts greatly received - it's not a happy household this end!