Taff in Glaws
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The lower ground floor of my 1850 terraced villa has parquet flooring that is in a very poor state and appears damp and rotten around the edges. The other half of the floor is concrete with a damp proof membrane underneath it (methinks this half of the kitchen is an early 1980's extension). We plan to completely gut the kitchen next year and I'm wondering whether I should take the whole floor up and make it breathable.
Access to the back of the property is via a privately owned narrow lane that will not accomodate a skip and is used frequently by my neighbour, secondly the kitchen is below the ground level of the front of the house joined by a small steepish flight of stairs (6 steps). Getting rid of waste is a little tricky and has further cost implications as we are located in a victorian square with no off road parking but is do-able.
Not sure if the recent extended bit has a DPC in it but the original walls don't appear to have.
Anyway how do you construct a breathable floor if this is the right way to go?
Access to the back of the property is via a privately owned narrow lane that will not accomodate a skip and is used frequently by my neighbour, secondly the kitchen is below the ground level of the front of the house joined by a small steepish flight of stairs (6 steps). Getting rid of waste is a little tricky and has further cost implications as we are located in a victorian square with no off road parking but is do-able.
Not sure if the recent extended bit has a DPC in it but the original walls don't appear to have.
Anyway how do you construct a breathable floor if this is the right way to go?