Help with damp slate floors
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Damp slate slab floors in basement. Property is heritage listed so slate needs to remain, but it’s laid onto sand with no damp proof underneath I’m guessing. Slabs are huge, some very damaged, flakey and cracked. I need advice re how I can safely cover floor with timber or tiles (onto fibre cement sheet or raised floor) or do I just need to live with damp floors?
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23/02/2024
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I would probably render it and then paint it as per your other advice, or gyrpock over the top.
22/04/2024
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To put anything over slate you will need to put self level compound over the entire area as slate various in thickness and is very un even. To install most types of…
23/04/2024
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just pull up the slate. If you go over the top, your tiles would not have an even surface to be glued to. Im no tiler, but i can imagine a couple of things being an issue…