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Hi all, I have a room with old plastic/vinyl tiles on top of concrete floor. I want to put laminate on top of those but there is a 2 foot wide, 10mm deep dip in the floor that goes across the whole room. I used MAPEI 3240 to fill it but within 2 days cracks started appearing and it was lifting...

Trying to convert shed into the office. Thinking of putting sonic gold laminate underlay over a shed floor which is made of pressure treated timber ( had some small gaps between, which I filled with silicon), and linoleum on top of it. Idea to use laminate underlay for a bit of insulation and...

Hi Folks, My builders keep not turning up and now things are starting to happen in the wrong order. The kitchen has very slippery tiles that I am having levelled with latex prior to fitting lino over the top. There is no issue with latexing over the tiles as they are level and well laid...

Hello, I have a problem of wet basement. When it rains a lot, I saw a small puddle of water appear.The garden level is 30 cm higher. The level of the ground in the basement is at the level of the foot of the foundation. I would like to put concrete with a dpm, but I think it is too wet. A...

Hi everyone, I am currently renovating my first 1950's property and I have just had two chimney breast openings widened, one to fit a range cooker and the other to fit a new electric fire. Since having them widened the floor is now not level with the floor boards. In the opening there is a...

Hi there's a gap between the floor and the skirting/ wall in my room that's about half way across and it does feel uneven to me. Ive had lots of floorboards screwed in recently and also noticed a screw that was just screwed in between a floorboard straight into a joist recently, I've moved it...

We have recently moved into a new build with a concrete floor throughout the downstairs. The concrete is quite rough and pockmarked (though there’s no particularly large variations and it’s level). We were wanting to do a stencilled floor design painted onto the concrete in the kitchen but we’d...

Hi guys, So just put the new joists up in the bathroom as we are redoing it, and we’ve checked that we’ll need about 12cm to be up to the floor in the hallway. now, with thick plywood, floor adhesive, abacus elements boards, shower tray, tile adhesive, and tiles, that’s only gonna bring us up...

Morning I feel such a tool. A few weeks ago i am embarked on sorting out the living room floor. I layed plywood on the floorboards then self levelling. I got so obsessed with the level that i didn't take into account how high the ceiling will be after i had finished . I installed some 10 mm...

Hi, I am just looking for some advice or recommendations about using and sourcing epoxy resin. Currently we have large light grey porcelain tiles down throughout our house but they were laid around 10mm apart at joints. We put light grey BAL grout down, sealed it all but within a couple of...

Hi All, I need to level my porch floor. However, along one edge is expanding foam and in the middle some plastic embedded in the concrete base (I assume from previous joining of 2 floors). Would a deep base self levelling compound stick to these? Or how can I prepare those areas and make it...

Hi all. I am putting down 12mm floating laminate floor right throughout downstairs with the hope to flow the laminate through doorways without a transition strip for a really slick look at the end (same level subfloor important). It is a concrete subfloor. Most of the floor is really nice and...

Hi all, I have purchased a nice cast iron radiator for my living room. The floor is suspended timber beams as is common in many houses. But, the radiator will be 130kg when it arrives and even more (circa 160kg) when wet/full. My gut feeling is to reinforce the floor or at least provide some...

Hi all, I just wanted to check with the more knowledgeable whether the following project is workable and safe. I'm looking to create a 3m2 mezzanine floor in my garage by hanging 2" x 6" joists at 450mm centres from 2 ledgers fixed to 100mm thermalite block using m12 x 160mm threaded rod set...

Hi. I'm looking for about 10 square metres of flooring to be tiled. Currently there's lino and underneath looks like concrete. Can someone give me an idea for how long it would take a pro to put down 45cm tiles?

Renovating my bathroom, it has a wet underfloor heating system installed. The pipes run in between the joists with aluminium plates to support. I want to have a tiled floor but need to know what sub floor to install. I need it to be thick enough to support the weight of a bath and tiles and...

I'm remodelling the bathroom (smallish 2m x 1.7) as a wetroom. I'm replacing the whole floor: 24mm ply, 6mm tile backer board, electrical underfloor heating, self levelling stuff, 10mm porcelain tiles (300x 600). I may be able to lay the whole ply board (apart from the tray former) as one piece...

I'm remodelling my first floor bathroom and lifted the chipboard floor to find a load of small stones. An internet search suggested it my be Vermiculite and that it might not be that good for me if I breath in the dust. Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of this and if it is dangerous...

Hi all basically we are having full bathroom done. Just moved into the house once I got under the bath I noticed some of the sub floor (chipboard) was rotten so I took it up the joists are fine but the next joist is under the wall? So not sure how the new floorboard will rest? Or how to add new...

We decorated our lounge and the removed the laminate in readiness to lay carpet and found marley tiles underneath. Planned on leaving them but two days later lots started lifting. We lifted them and then applied the wickes liquid dpm to the floor but a week later, ots still so tacky that you...