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2nd floor wood cracking
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I waded into the previous thread largely supportive of the OP.
Not sure I've ever seen a house here with a concrete floor on an upper level. Flats sure but not in general housing stock.
OP if you want a concrete first floor you'll have to build your own house.0 -
Building the house as I want here would cost 500k in a medium city/town, around London even 750k.
Not because of the luxury, but because on-demand they cost a lost here. The only wide market I see is from big developers.0 -
Some of our homes are centuries old, and gosh they have wooden floors which have withstood generations of feet tramping over them. Wood is flexible, it's meant to be flexible, it's natural. If you find an odd floorboard that creaks, try inserting cork strips between the boards, this will enable them to flex without creaking.
If you want solid floors buy a modern flat or house with concrete floors.
I've got few info regarding this job, painless would be few grands, with nasty issues could be even 6k...
So I'm thinking to pay for an evaluation of the house, offer much less to the owner than 240k, do the job before I enter inside and then relocate, otherwise I need to relocate once again if I do it after.
Anyway all this story will be quite a pain...0 -
I've got few info regarding this job, painless would be few grands, with nasty issues could be even 6k...
So I'm thinking to pay for an evaluation of the house, offer much less to the owner than 240k, do the job before I enter inside and then relocate, otherwise I need to relocate once again if I do it after.
Anyway all this story will be quite a pain...
A pain will be trying to fix or make adjustments to your central heating or electrics with solid concrete floors on every level. There is a reason houses are built how they are, and it's not because they're substandard.1 -
In this case is right.
It concerns me also the house insurance, that will be a serious burocrati pain.0 -
Is it comedy day on the forum today?0
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In this case is right.
It concerns me also the house insurance, that will be a serious burocrati pain.
You are just making stuff up. All insurers want to know is whether the house is of standard construction and reasonably maintained in terms of protection from the elements. They have no interest whatever in whether the floors creak.0 -
You are just making stuff up. All insurers want to know is whether the house is of standard construction and properly maintained. They have no interest in whether the floors creak.
I'm not aware of the whole procedure, just read it online, I need to verify with some house insurance.0 -
Not just in the UK apparently. Well dodgy floors here too:
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may0 -
Otherwise I found a 250k 2 bedroom coach house, brand new, but I don't like someone parking under my house, the only pro is that it's new and is detached.
Hang on hang on... a detached coach house? They do houses that float in mid air now do they?
Excuse any mis-spelt replies, there's probably a cat sat on the keyboard0
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