stevedunne
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Hello and a happy new year to all.
I've searched the forums for a similar query to mine but nothing is quite the same. We have a 200 Y/O Victorian detached with a cellar measuring about 8m x 4m. It is about 1.5m in the ground and is quite dry, we are on high ground and the earth drains well. The floor is engineering brick and the basement walls are stone which again are good and dry. We have lived here now for seven years, eight this summer (2025) and for the last few years I've been doing bits to make it a bit more usable. There are two coal chutes at the front of the house that had single-glazed timber casements that I replaced with DG units with trickle vents, and I also extended the CH with 2No radiators. For the last few months I've had a dehumidifier running to keep things dry, we only keep the Christmas decorations down there at the moment.
Anyway, my question is that I want to put a caber floor on the existing brick floor and wondered the best way to do it. Since the cellar is drying out I've ad a fair bit of salt settled on the brick floor in patches which I just sweep up and bin. I was thinking of placing some Visquene on the floor with 25mm polystyrene insulation then a floating T&G caber floor, and then I thought about putting timber battens on strips of dpc with insulation and caber floor giving me a bit of a ventilation gap. I'd like to know anyone's thoughts or suggestions if they have done anything similar?
Thanks
Steve
I've searched the forums for a similar query to mine but nothing is quite the same. We have a 200 Y/O Victorian detached with a cellar measuring about 8m x 4m. It is about 1.5m in the ground and is quite dry, we are on high ground and the earth drains well. The floor is engineering brick and the basement walls are stone which again are good and dry. We have lived here now for seven years, eight this summer (2025) and for the last few years I've been doing bits to make it a bit more usable. There are two coal chutes at the front of the house that had single-glazed timber casements that I replaced with DG units with trickle vents, and I also extended the CH with 2No radiators. For the last few months I've had a dehumidifier running to keep things dry, we only keep the Christmas decorations down there at the moment.
Anyway, my question is that I want to put a caber floor on the existing brick floor and wondered the best way to do it. Since the cellar is drying out I've ad a fair bit of salt settled on the brick floor in patches which I just sweep up and bin. I was thinking of placing some Visquene on the floor with 25mm polystyrene insulation then a floating T&G caber floor, and then I thought about putting timber battens on strips of dpc with insulation and caber floor giving me a bit of a ventilation gap. I'd like to know anyone's thoughts or suggestions if they have done anything similar?
Thanks
Steve
