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hi all, I ripped up the old tiled floor in our kitchen as the tiles had all started to come loose. Turns out there was a small leak and the chipboard flooring had turned to mush! I replaced the chipboard with new boards with the kitchen units in situ (with some skilful Jenga of kitchen unit legs). Retiled and all was good!! ...for a bit!
Now cracks have appeared where the chipboard joins are, obviously the floor is flexing-it is a floating floor with polystyrene insulation, a DPM and then the chipboard. I think it is likely block and beam underneath.
So I want to know what options I have to replace the floating floor with something I can tile onto properly, without removing the kitchen units? Can I have the floor screeded with units in place? Could empty them and remove the legs to allow this? Any other ideas? Thanks!
Now cracks have appeared where the chipboard joins are, obviously the floor is flexing-it is a floating floor with polystyrene insulation, a DPM and then the chipboard. I think it is likely block and beam underneath.
So I want to know what options I have to replace the floating floor with something I can tile onto properly, without removing the kitchen units? Can I have the floor screeded with units in place? Could empty them and remove the legs to allow this? Any other ideas? Thanks!