Hi there, hoping I could get some experience from someone who knows about hybrid floors please.
We have a stone and earth cob cottage and we have removed the gypsum and cement tanking off the walls of our sitting room ready for lime. This has made a big difference already as skirting was rotten and walls wet behind the tanking.
We have a concrete slab floor with an unexpected gap of 70mm wide by 50mm deep between the edge of the slab and the stone external walls which are either side of the lounge.
We need to keep the slab but are aware of the potential of pushing the moisture up the wall especially if we were to fill the gap with cement. We think we are along the right lines to take a different approach and use foamed glass & a layer of lime just in the trench to create an evaporation zone.
we wonder if anyone has some experience or advice on the minimum width the trench needs to be to create a hybrid floor. There isn’t a need to have a floor strength for the zone as in limecrete as the areas will not be walked on.
Hoping someone can advise please.
Many thanks for reading.
Elizabeth
We have a stone and earth cob cottage and we have removed the gypsum and cement tanking off the walls of our sitting room ready for lime. This has made a big difference already as skirting was rotten and walls wet behind the tanking.
We have a concrete slab floor with an unexpected gap of 70mm wide by 50mm deep between the edge of the slab and the stone external walls which are either side of the lounge.
We need to keep the slab but are aware of the potential of pushing the moisture up the wall especially if we were to fill the gap with cement. We think we are along the right lines to take a different approach and use foamed glass & a layer of lime just in the trench to create an evaporation zone.
we wonder if anyone has some experience or advice on the minimum width the trench needs to be to create a hybrid floor. There isn’t a need to have a floor strength for the zone as in limecrete as the areas will not be walked on.
Hoping someone can advise please.
Many thanks for reading.
Elizabeth