In typical fashion we find ourselves mid job when Building Control came around to inform us that we should be laying a concrete layer on the ground floor. So let me break it down.
The floor plan to the ground floor consists of three rooms, two of which have a suspended timber floor and the third is concrete.
Beneath the floor boards are joists, large timber supports that your floorboards sit on.
Beneath that is a void and then the ground in which the house was built on.
If you are in an area where the table level of water is high you may find that you pool water in this void, however all that lay under my floorboards was a load of agg.
Being told by BC that the reason behind laying the DPM and concrete was to stop rising damp (which the house does not have) we are not below the ground water table and on first inspection the floor is not moist at all.
Anyway £1500 for materials and labour, and shoveling a tonne of sand into a cement mixer and it’s done, time will tell what benefits if any this has.
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