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Flooring is the general term for a permanent covering of a floor, or for the work of installing such a floor covering. Floor covering is a term to generically describe any finish material applied over a floor structure to provide a walking surface. Both terms are used interchangeably but floor covering refers more to loose-laid materials.
Materials almost always classified as flooring include carpet, laminate, tile, and vinyl.

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  1. S

    Various problems with bathroom - please help!

    So I bought my first flat recently (am in UK) and in a bit of a pickle as the bathroom has turned up lots of problems that weren't picked up by the survey. I have had loads of plumbers over, and have always carefully checked their reviews/tried to vet them as much as possible. However, I've had...
  2. R

    Can motorised valves go under floorboards (legally)?

    Hi guys and gals, I'm looking to try to change from a Y-plan to an S-plan-plus this year to have a heated bathroom. While the house isn't that large, a mixture of south-facing brick and north-facing (and Jerry-built) timber frame construction means no single thermostat will cut the muster...
  3. Muskopia

    Supporting speedfit pipes under 1st floor floorboards

    Hi. What would you recommend for pipe support whilst running 15mm central heating pipes parallel to floor joists? My idea is to screw wood supports perpendicular to the joists and clip the pipes to the top, or, screw-in wood supports with 22mm holes and pass through the pipe. When the pipe...
    • Muskopia
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    • america floor floorboards pipes speedfit under usa
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: USA
  4. P

    Column rad feet on non-column rad

    One pic shows the experiments I'm doing with supporting a type 11 radiator (160cm wide, 50cm high, total weight around 35kg) using universal column radiator feet. The other pic shows the detail of the contact surface between the rad and the feet. Aesthetic considerations apart, is there...
  5. K

    Clicking / banding radiator pipework under floorboards

    Long story short - the pipework in all my upstairs bedrooms are now suddenly ticking / knocking under the floorboard when I switch the heating on (for a good few minutes) and the same again when I switch it off (lasts longer) Nothing has changed since a few years ago when we changed the...
    • KingK
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    • america clicking floorboards noise pipework radiator radiator advice ticking under under floorboards usa
    • Replies: 0
    • Forum: USA
  6. J

    Moving radiator pipes from floorboards to wall

    Hello, I’d like to move the radiator’s pipes into the wall, so that they come out of it horizontally and above the skirting I am also likely to fit a wider (but single panel) radiator to better match the width of the window I think it’s better not to have any fitting inside the wall so I might...
  7. K

    Supporting pipes under floorboards + insulation

    Hi, How do I support with clips pipes run under a floating timber ground floor? The joists are too small to notch or drill into and in any case, there's plenty of space underneath. Where do you place the pipe clips if running perpendicular to the joists? And if plastic pipes, this means lots of...
  8. J

    Poo smell coming from under floorboards ensuite/bedroom

    Can anyone help me with this? I get this smell at low level - around the floor area of ensuite and bedroom floor near the ensuite - intermittently. If you put your nose down close to the ceramic tiles in the bathroom or the skirtings in the bedroom you can smell it. Can a smell come through...
  9. L

    Water coming through floorboards and damp under stairs (new)

    Hi, Just joined - and would really appreciate some help with the following. I've been living in my house for about 15 years - no major plumbing issues. Earlier on this year, I noted avery small amount of water coming up through my wood flooring in my sitting room, in between the 'joins'. Now...
  10. M

    Identifying a water leak - insulation

    Got a potential headache on my hands. I have recently had my house refurbished- we went all the way back to the joists and I saw all new central heating pipes and electrics going in - as well as the floorboards and a layer of hardboard on the upstairs floor and plywood in the bathroom go on...
  11. H

    Sewer smell from underneath the floorboards (a mystery challenge of sorts)

    Hi all, As the title suggests I have a slightly unusual problem that I wanted to see if anyone else had ever experienced (or had any ideas about). I live in (and own) a top floor flat in a 5-story block that was built in 2008. Ever since I moved in (I was the first one in) there's been an...
  12. S

    Running overflow pipe underneath floorboards as saniflo waste

    Hi all. I have just looked at a job where the customer requires a wc and basin fitted in an elderly relative's room 7meters away from the soil stack in the kitchen. I have decided to fit a Sanitop macerator to pump the waste up to the ceiling and run 22mm pipe through the joists to the soil...
  13. J

    Bath: 75mm trap or 50mm Anti-syphon trap?

    Hi there Looking for advice from you hardened pros... Have bath, feeding into soil stack, via 3.1m of 40mm pipe with two 90 swept bend. (The run was going to be only 1m until I decided to flip the bath round for a better view!) Currently fitting the bath, I could fit the bath 600mm high (rim...
  14. J

    Creaking/ticking pipes when heating is on

    Hi, (will start by saying I'm glad such a forum exists) I just moved into a property, and when the central heating comes on, there are periodic ticking/creaking noises coming from certain parts of the house. Based on some rough internet research, it seems like this could be due to expanding...
  15. D

    getting floorboards up

    Evening to forum. Used plug cutter concentric to each nail head, got them all up but floorboard still wont move. I can hammer a slim scraper blade to a half inch depth between the cracks but no further. If this was the tongue the boards must be over inch and quarter thick.(which don't exist)...
  16. P

    Found anything interesting under floorboards lately?

    I've never found anything of real value anywhere yet but its always nice to come across tools left by previous plumbers, the other week I found a nice pair of stillsons in an airing cupboard and in another job a box of 30 year old fittings under the floor. Its the newspapers I like finding...
  17. I

    new shower tray onto upstairs floorboards

    I am installing a new slimline plastic shower tray onto upstairs floor boards. Does the floor need re-enforcing under building regulations? or is the just for heavy resin trays?
    • IST
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    • 18mm building building regs building regulations floor floorboards regulations screw shower shower tray tray upstairs
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  18. I

    slim line shower tray onto floorboards

    Can anyone tell me the ideal way to secure a slimline shower tray to floorboards in a new upstairs bathroom? my thoughts were: -silicon, with small spacers to achieve level -gripafix -pink thistle plaster but i'm not sure which would be most effective; and correct? any ideas?
    • IST
    • Thread
    • bathroom floorboards installation pipes replacement shower shower tray tray waste waste pipes water
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  19. P

    condensation under floorboards

    opened up a floor in the btahroom of a client to fix a leak, and noticed a lot of condensation gathered on the cold feed. the house in general seems to suffer with condensation. the cold feed is next to (2") away from the hot feed, and about 2 foot away from nearest central heating pipes...
    • Poynton Plumber
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    • air air vent bathroom ceiling central central heating cold condensation copper fix floorboards heating hot insulation iphone leak mains pipes tapatalk tee under under floorboards vent wall work
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  20. N

    Cutting floorboards

    Hey guys I need access to replace a port valve. The issue is the floorboards that need lifting run under the wall between two bedrooms. How is it best to get the boards up? Also is a fein multimaster a useful purchase, considering the price?
    • nzmanc
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    • board cutting difficult floorboards job metal pipes price problem spare tee valve wall
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
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