Our house is built over a big void with the ground floor made from concrete beams with blocks in between - I think these are called Bison blocks? Then there's a layer of concrete and on top of that are the gas, water and CH pipes and a layer of expanded polystyrene then T&G woodchip boards. It's a terrible floor for a kitchen because everything moves as you walk around and the woodchip is breaking up and getting loose.
We will be completely refurbishing the kitchen this summer, which will mean stripping back to bare concrete floor and bare walls. We don't want the polystyrene back because it's so soft but we need insulation. I was thinking we could re-lay the services to accommodate the new layout, then lay Kingspan then create a rigid floor out of boards with ply over then the final finish, which will be Karndean or something similar.
How does this sound? Could we lay the boards onto battens with Kingspan in between to prevent movement?
We will be completely refurbishing the kitchen this summer, which will mean stripping back to bare concrete floor and bare walls. We don't want the polystyrene back because it's so soft but we need insulation. I was thinking we could re-lay the services to accommodate the new layout, then lay Kingspan then create a rigid floor out of boards with ply over then the final finish, which will be Karndean or something similar.
How does this sound? Could we lay the boards onto battens with Kingspan in between to prevent movement?
