Working in a Victorian house today, lady wanted me to look at her bathroom floor which she said was 'bouncy'. Not been right since some alterations to the central heating a few months ago.
The floor (4' x 6') was indeed bouncy. Removed the vinyl expecting to find soggy chipboard, but no. Suspected over notched joists.
Turned out to be floored in 12mm chipboard!
The mind boggles................
Oh..
and here was me thinking that you were looking for tuition in how to assert for getting proper service.
I'm thinking of starting a school teaching how to do this - there is an enormous market need in the UK.
Was the lady petite?
It conjures up this image of standing there to take a pee, the floor giving way, and you find yourself face high to a toilet seat, straddled across a joist, with a wreaked lath and plaster ceiling below! The landing is not going to be pleasant!
That would depend (in part) on the positions of the joists.
If you want the eazy service try the single mothers (any age) or divorvced women in their late 30s early 40s.
Adam.
I didn't actually understand a word of that Andy?
I was thinking of VM's other raison d'etre to his famous catch phrase
- giving suppliers of goods and services serious stick for non performance or more accurately not fulfilling their promises. There's a definite need for more of that.
As to the lady being petite, it was in the context of whether she was at risk of falling through the floor.
Aha!
Plummeting possibly :-)
So what did you do?
Rip it all up and 18mm ply throughout?
Ripped it up & used 18mm P5 moisture resistant T & G chipboard. Fine for
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