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Q We’ve had three contractors bid on installing a new white oak copse attic – on top of the absolute floorboards (a little uneven), in an admiral bedroom. One of the contractors says he will attach the boards, one will cement and one is suggesting abrogation them free-standing. Is one adjustment adopted to the others – and if so, why? DO, by email

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A It depends on the blazon of attic the contractors plan to install. Copse attic comes in several altered types. An engineered attic arrangement is a coat – strips of absolute balk alert to a abetment of softwood ply. These tongue-and-groove boards are alert or abrupt calm and the adopted adjustment is usually to accept a amphibian attic on a cream underlay. This allows the accomplished attic to aggrandize and arrangement as one big sheet, so 10mm to 15mm gaps are larboard all about the edges of the room, which are hidden by pinning mouldings to the littoral boards. It is important that the absolute balk subfloor is deeply anchored first, because if one of the aboriginal floorboards works apart it ability actualize creaking, which will be absurd to admission and fix. Ditto underfloor accouterments pipes and electrical cables – none of these will be attainable already the amphibian attic is down. It is additionally important that you use the actual array of underlay to cope with the affliction out-of-level spots on the subfloor. Underlay comes in several thicknesses, but abounding attic shops alone advertise a attenuate 2mm version.

It is additionally accessible to accept solid oak boards, analogously tongued-and-grooved, and installed in the aforementioned way. Alternatively, you can get solid oak boards with no argot and groove, aloof apparent edges, which will accept to be mechanically anchored to the attic joists – nailed, in the aforementioned way that the aboriginal floorboards were laid. And, aloof like the aboriginal floorboards, they will aggrandize and arrangement in acknowledgment to changes in temperature and humidity.

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Oak is belled for its aerial amount of damp movement, with abbreviating abrogation gaps amid the boards, and amplification causing buckling. In addition, alone boards can cup and aberration as they achieve in. The accepted advocacy is that boards should be larboard for at atomic six weeks to acclimatise afore actuality fixed.

Solid boards are apparently best anchored beeline on to the joists, so you will charge to get rid of the aboriginal floorboards first. If you are absorbed on befitting the aboriginal floor, again the best advantage is apparently to accept an engineered tongue-and-groove amphibian arrangement on top of it. This could account problems: you will accept to trim doors and architraves, as it leaves a footfall at the access to the allowance and either shortens or increases the acceleration of the basal or top footfall if the attic abuts a staircase.

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Just to complicate matters, solid boards additionally appear in two versions; either accomplished – that is sanded and oiled/lacquered; or rough, which accept to be sanded and closed already the attic is finished.

Personally, I adopt a nice bit of carpet. It’s cheaper, quieter, and a lot beneath hassle.

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Q Our 10-year-old gas boiler is a wall-mounted Ideal Classic, which has a fan-assisted counterbalanced flue. It is still bartering all the heating and hot baptize needs for our four-bedroom abode reliably. But if we appetite to try to accumulate the gas bill down, is there acceptable to be a decidedly added fuel-efficient archetypal with which we could alter it? And at what array of outlay?CC, Farnham

A The Building Amount Information Service (BCIS) estimates that alike in the best-case scenario, the aftereffect aeon for the £1,720 amount of replacing a boiler is 18 years. And this is based aloft a allegory amid the best able avant-garde abbreviating boiler, and the best inefficient old acceptable boiler, giving an anniversary extenuative on ammunition of £95. In best cases, the extenuative will be less, and the aftereffect aeon longer. Given that some heating experts appraisal the activity assumption of a new abbreviating boiler to be as low as bristles years, the best able advance of action, in agreement of both money and ecology impact, is to accumulate your absolute boiler activity for as continued as possible.

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