Good people of uk.d-i-y,
I have a coldish, north facing, ground floor room which we would like to make more comfortable and usable rather quickly.
The floor is old T&G floorboards, in good condition (sanded and sealed 3 or 4 years ago), but obviously a bit gappy since they've probably been down as long as the house has been up, so say 160 years.
In the centre of one wall, there is a stone slab, say 150*50 cm, at about 7mm (but rather uneven) above the level of the floor.
If I wanted to carpet this room, (and SWMBO says that I do!), how would I go about this? My concerns are mainly:
- How to avoid damp in the stone area (either coming up through it or condensing on the top surface of it.
- How to avoid having too much of a bump where the stone hearth slab is
- it's an old house, so a little bump would be in character if the carpet wouldn't wear on the edges of the bump.
(I know I could take the boards up, insulate below and relay them without the gaps and also remove the stone slab while I was about it, but I really don't have time for that right now.)
Cheers,
William.