Thursday, December 11, 2025

New Waterproof Flooring After Floods Or Leaks

 A leaking radiator caused damage to flooring.

If flooring is stuck down, you are charged extra by the people who come to fix the next flooring because it is hard to removed the stick down flooring.

So I prefer jigsaw flooring, that fits together.

First, if one part of the floor is damaged, you can replace just that section.

Second, the replacer won't charge you extra for removing the first flooring.

I recall the man laying the new flooring telling me the  flooring was not stuck with the proper glue but a glue which made it impossible to remove the carpet, normally to tear it back. Instead, a stronger glue had been used which left the carpet in little clumps, each of which had to be removed separately, which took him hours, for which I was paying a large amount as he charged me by the hour.

Some flooring companies offer fitting in the price.

Others , like Tapis in Brent Cross, included the free measuring up. But they added for removing the old flooring, taking away the old flooring, laying the flooring, for the glue, underlay, flattening the undersurface which is necessary for jigaw tiles, though not for blue down tiles.

We looked at two types of lino tiling. It is not a solid tile but a laminate. We opted for the thicker one. 

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