Afternoon all.
We have a mid 19th century cottage with a floor that needs replacing due to damp and woodworm.
It's currently a suspended wood floor with just a single airbrick. Due to the layout of the house, it's unfortuantely no viable to fit another airbrick.
As a result, we need to make some decisions about what to replace the floor with. The room in question has some mild damp in teh walls tha tis causing paper to peel. The walls can, if nieccessary, be stripped to bare brick, and some sort of treatment applied to tie in with new floor choice.
The way I see it, our choices are:
Another suspended wood floor: Still have issues with damp due to no potential for another air brick - lifespan limited, still get damp issues. However, 'inkeeping' with the property.
Solid concrete: Possibility for a lot of good quality insulation, which can only be a good thing. Potentially cheaper as more DIY-able to a non chippie such as myself? However, the state of the damp course is not known and is presumed to be slate - not sure if we can tie in the damp proof membrane for the new floor with this. Concerns about pushing damp up the walls if no DPC present.
Suspended concrete block floor: potentially cold, no insualtion, worries about not helping with damp.
Is there anything else I'm missing? Any of you experts have any advice what we should be choosing?
Thanks
Si
We have a mid 19th century cottage with a floor that needs replacing due to damp and woodworm.
It's currently a suspended wood floor with just a single airbrick. Due to the layout of the house, it's unfortuantely no viable to fit another airbrick.
As a result, we need to make some decisions about what to replace the floor with. The room in question has some mild damp in teh walls tha tis causing paper to peel. The walls can, if nieccessary, be stripped to bare brick, and some sort of treatment applied to tie in with new floor choice.
The way I see it, our choices are:
Another suspended wood floor: Still have issues with damp due to no potential for another air brick - lifespan limited, still get damp issues. However, 'inkeeping' with the property.
Solid concrete: Possibility for a lot of good quality insulation, which can only be a good thing. Potentially cheaper as more DIY-able to a non chippie such as myself? However, the state of the damp course is not known and is presumed to be slate - not sure if we can tie in the damp proof membrane for the new floor with this. Concerns about pushing damp up the walls if no DPC present.
Suspended concrete block floor: potentially cold, no insualtion, worries about not helping with damp.
Is there anything else I'm missing? Any of you experts have any advice what we should be choosing?
Thanks
Si