the daydream fund challenge thread

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Oh, you have my sympathies, LIR.
We got away without having to lift any of the original kitchen flags but previous owners had to lift & relay the flags in one of the other rooms because of a culvert running under the floor. They knew nothing about until it collapsed. Ooops.
Sadly, nobody seems to be able to lay flags like they used to (nor cobbles either, we've found) so instead of butting right up to each other there's now a grout line.

It remains to be seen how well our builders do at putting them back....we're going to put under floor heating in while they are up, and we are ging to need more flags because part of the room desn't have them we don't think (unless screeded over and salvageable.)


the other floor works atm are drilling through a non original and now concrete floor in what we think is an lder bit of the house (windows confuse this though) looking fr foundations. I'm quite tempted to say lets to the whole floor and underfloor heating through out. I hate rads. Also have to decide pretty soon whther to go with wooden floors (reclaimed or old looking wood) or stone there. We had said wood to the architect but if we underfloor maes sense to go stone I think. Pricier though. And maybe less child friendly than wood. I don't know because we just hae never had to think like that.

spending so much time thnking about stone I quite fancy stone floors through out down stairs now...

Itismehonest

Are you my doppelganger? Having had underfloor heating put in one room (that's under a slate floor) I would love to have it throughout. I go to great lengths to mask rads, too. :beer:

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

Are you my doppelganger? Having had underfloor heating put in one room (that's under a slate floor) I would love to have it throughout. I go to great lengths to mask rads, too. :beer:

rofl. I'll be honoured if I am.

the thing is, because of the concrete floors through out here its a job extra...although.....another mse-er on a nother thread might be able to say how much of a job....

Itismehonest

When we laid the underfloor heating the pipes were put on a deep cement base. Then cemented over before the slates were put on top. If you have sufficient headroom you may be able to cut down the workload by not taking everything up.

We turned an old dairy into a study. The previous owner had flogged the flagstones & left a plain concrete floor I did a trompe l'oeil flagstone floor. Nobody notices! :rotfl:

kazschow

Rozee, we negotiated our new build for a fixed price so no hidden unforseen extras, only extras are things we have chosen to add... in the current market it works out much lower than £1200/ m2... get a fair few quotes, go see properties they have worked on etc then make an informed descision on the way you want to proceed.

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

When we laid the underfloor heating the pipes were put on a deep cement base. Then cemented over before the slates were put on top. If you have sufficient headroom you may be able to cut down the workload by not taking everything up.

We turned an old dairy into a study. The previous owner had flogged the flagstones & left a plain concrete floor I did a trompe l'oeil flagstone floor. Nobody notices! :rotfl:

we have high ceilings in everywhere but one room (where we are taking out a divding wall...so half a room) but want no changes in level any where, and all our doorways are low....I think it would mean floors coming out

Itismehonest

Yes, you would obviously raise the floor level a few inches so if you already have low doors then you'd have a problem. I guess if you think laterally, you could always hypocaust the walls

alfie_1

hi all....
my only experience of underfloor heating is...
1.... friend had UFH put in his old cottage [1700]. they put wiring down then screed?then tiles. result ? cr*p !! they had not put correct heat returning boarding stuff on foundations [dirt !] so all the heat was absorbed and only finally got to the tiles after about 24hr constant ...

2....another friend [u no who] put correct base down then cables then real marble? tiles [2'x2'] result ....brilliant but again takes a while to get warm but matter of hours.

3. same person as above put UFH under wood boards in another house and it is really quick to warm up. i think wood stays generally warmer anyway.

stone is ok but when they get cold they hold that cold and take much longer to lose it. bit like the night storage theory... got to put the bu**ars on well ahead of when you want the warmth, of course if the heat source [power] is somehow "green" then it wont be too expensive to leave on all the time when needed.

im only going by the houses ive been in...

p.s. im in a really cross mood tonight, someone said something to me that [to me] was a personal slight and im pi**ed off wiv em !!

lostinrates

alfie_1 wrote: »

p.s. im in a really cross mood tonight, someone said something to me that [to me] was a personal slight and im pi**ed off wiv em !!

what did they say! you take people as you find them, I always think, so it must have been nasty:(

lostinrates

Itismehonest wrote: »

you could always hypocaust the walls

that sounds disconcerting....what is it?