Started a new job today. Large Victorian house. Kitchen/Utility & hallway floors.
Mostly old screed/concrete.......small section of old floorboards. ALL tiled already......onto a mixture of hardboard & 4mm ply.
No problem.....or so I thought.
Utility/hallway came up no problem. Then came the kitchen. Which was ply over floorboards, but a lot of cracked/broken tiles. Started pulling up tiles......and the ply AND the floorboards just crumbled to dust.
It it looks like Dry rot?
The old concrete (under the floorboards) had been laid with batons set into the floor every 2' or so.......I assume to nail the tongue & grooved floor to, but even the batons had turned to dust. So now I have half ripped up, back to concrete, the whole area, About a 35/40mm drop in floor height.
Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day, as she won't/doesn't want the kitchen removed, which is still on rotten boards.
Monday evening rant over..
Mostly old screed/concrete.......small section of old floorboards. ALL tiled already......onto a mixture of hardboard & 4mm ply.
No problem.....or so I thought.
Utility/hallway came up no problem. Then came the kitchen. Which was ply over floorboards, but a lot of cracked/broken tiles. Started pulling up tiles......and the ply AND the floorboards just crumbled to dust.
It it looks like Dry rot?
The old concrete (under the floorboards) had been laid with batons set into the floor every 2' or so.......I assume to nail the tongue & grooved floor to, but even the batons had turned to dust. So now I have half ripped up, back to concrete, the whole area, About a 35/40mm drop in floor height.
Tomorrow is going to be an interesting day, as she won't/doesn't want the kitchen removed, which is still on rotten boards.
Monday evening rant over..
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