Dear Pat: I plan to add a bedroom for my children. It will be built on a slab to save money and use floor radiant heat. I would like to install hardwood flooring over it. Can this be done over the ...
Q: I want to install a wood floor over a concrete slab in my downstairs bedroom. What kind of flooring material is needed, and how do I install it? A: Wood floors are beautiful and, with intermediate ...
Q: I’m putting ceramic tile flooring in my kitchen and live on a 10-year-old, ground-level concrete slab. Do I need to put any type of underlayment or vapor barrier underneath it? A: It’s perfectly ...
Q: I want to install a wood floor over a concrete slab in my downstairs bedroom. What kind of flooring material is needed, and how do I install it? A: Wood floors are beautiful and, with intermediate ...
Wood over concrete? Yes, it can be done! For the longest time, homeowners were warned that wide plank wood floors installed over concrete would result in moisture problems. But that's not so anymore.
Concrete is a permeable substance capable of absorbing and releasing moisture, which can continue to affect the RH of a slab long after it's been placed. Many people don’t realize how important ...
Q. This week: Is there any way to reline or replace metal heat ducts under a concrete slab floor without tearing up the floor? We had our ducts commercially cleaned five years ago, when we were having ...
Q. We would like to finish our basement and need your expertise on how to go about it, especially the slab floor. With excellent gravel soil and perimeter footing drain on our 5-year-old house, the ...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- In recent years, garage floors throughout Central New York have collapsed suddenly, leaving homeowners perplexed, frustrated and, sometimes, in danger. Those collapses are always a ...
Temperatures can soar to triple digits with humidity to match in the often brutal Southern Louisiana summer. Those sweltering conditions may have been a factor in the unevenness of the concrete floor ...
Q. Our home is 12 years old. Almost from the start the basement floor started getting black blotches which just got larger and larger. In the center it begins to get white and chalky. I have had ...
Q. My garage floor is pitted in some areas. You mentioned a penetrating sealer in today's column. Is there a certain brand you would recommend? Would this work if applied just to the pitted areas? The ...
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