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Spongy floor in kitchen
parcival
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I have been asked to look at the kitchen floor in a relations flat. It has a spongy area by the washing machine which made me suspect a leak.
I have peeled back the lino and although it is bone dry now it looks like there was a leak in the past. The top surface of chipboard or fibre board has crumbled away to nothing. I have removed this to reveal a layer of polystyrene sitting on a concrete base - all bone dry. The area in question is about 18 inches long by about 12 inches tapering to about 6 inches. The depth from floor level to the solid concrete base as about one and a half inches.
I just want get it back to a solid floor and was planning to fill the hole with quick drying cement and then replace the lino - is this the correct approach please.
I have peeled back the lino and although it is bone dry now it looks like there was a leak in the past. The top surface of chipboard or fibre board has crumbled away to nothing. I have removed this to reveal a layer of polystyrene sitting on a concrete base - all bone dry. The area in question is about 18 inches long by about 12 inches tapering to about 6 inches. The depth from floor level to the solid concrete base as about one and a half inches.
I just want get it back to a solid floor and was planning to fill the hole with quick drying cement and then replace the lino - is this the correct approach please.
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