A friend has bought a victorian house and discovered that in the front room the underfloor void has been completely filled with concrete, right up to the underside of the floorboards (with the joists now embedded in the concrete of course.
Why would someone do that? I can't work it out.
Robert
the underfloor void has been completely filled with concrete, right up to the underside of the floorboards (with the joists now embedded in the concrete of course.
Draft-proofing. :-)
On Friday 25 January 2013 10:04 RobertL wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Because the floor was rotten. It's not uncommon, but they usually take the joists out first!
I know a Victorian terraced houses where for some reason a solid floor was considered preferable. It always felt cold and clammy and never felt comfortable.
the underfloor void has been completely filled with concrete, right up to the underside of the floorboards (with the joists now embedded in the concrete of course.
Fred West ?
a colleague was recommended to fill in the under hall void with concrete to replace rotten timbers. It had only been finished a few weeks when the water main sprang a leak. Guess where the leak was?
On Friday 25 January 2013 10:52 Kenny wrote in uk.d-i-y:
Wasn't he more of a patio man?
Only in the summer months!
I heard he was in the habit of starting work very early in the morning. People would wake up or arrive on site to discover he'd got half of the job finished. He could dig a post hole very quickly, and that's all he needed to drop a body into. F*ck knows how many girls are buried around Gloucester.
My old hose was like that. Only dry floor in the place. Because they had but a DPV when when they ripped up the board.
When I ripped up the boards in an adjacent room there was a lake underneath....and the brick chimney stack, with no DPC was standing in it..
the underfloor void has been completely filled with concrete, right up to the underside of the floorboards (with the joists now embedded in the concrete of course.
aaagh!!!
Arrh. Be 'bout this time o' year, ye warnt to be thinkin' abourt plantin' some bodies.
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This must have been a costly exercise so it was done for a reason. Probably a bodge of some sort so needs investigating. (Chat with neighbours?) Probably rotten joist ends (in the walls) or some sort of problem with foundations/lower part of walls. Or to try and stop water rising. Or maybe even rats tunneling.
I believe there are quite a few older properties where the water main has had to be re routed due to similar issues.. grin.
Brian
heard he left one with the arse sticking out above ground .... so he had somewhere to park his bike.
I lived in a Victorian terrace in which the suspended timber ground floor had been replaced with concrete. There were a few voids under it, by the sound of it.
The land had been marshy and many others were having concrete ground floors installed as they were renovated.
A CID man showed up, asking about a woman who'd lived there 30 years or so previously. They'd 'received information' her husband had killed her. I sent him to speak to the only long-term resident neighbour that I knew of and never heard any more.
Billy Connolly Wife Joke.
If I was filling in concrete, I think I would put some 4" pipe in as ducts for rethreading any services that might need it in the future.
In message , Andrew Gabriel writes
Yes. Already planned fireplace air ducts for wish list groundfloor insulated screed.
>In message , charles writes
Across the road from me, the water main sprang a leak in front of his house the day before yesterday - You can now get two bricks in the space between the bay window and the cill
I don't think he has bricks and mortar insurance
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