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A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces made with modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal or any other material that can support the expected load.
The levels of a building are often referred to as floors, although a more proper term is storey.
Floors typically consist of a subfloor for support and a floor covering used to give a good walking surface. In modern buildings the subfloor often has electrical wiring, plumbing, and other services built in. As floors must meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict building codes in some regions.

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  1. B

    Pipe best used for joist floors

    What pipe for plumbing Radiators and domestic do most plumbers use for upstairs with joist floors on new builds these days iv used copper and hep but resently bout a press but never tryied it on a 1st floor with joists is it viable to do it with the 16mm pipe and 20mm pipe as its not as...
  2. C

    Dark stain on wood floors

    I spotted this dark stain on my wood floor around 3 weeks ago, last time the underfloor heating was on was in December. Yesterday I switched it on again and it seems to be getting bigger. The stain is dark, no cupping or crowning, no sign of water or moisture. Any ideas whether it's a chemical...
  3. F

    Shower Waste through concrete floors - any advice ?

    Hi everyone, First a quick bit of background : I'm English, living in France, and renovating a 1960s house, which has pretty much needed to be stripped back to the studs, and started again. Full new electrical refit, plumbing refit, walls, ceilings &etc. It took about a year-and-a-half (as...
    • FranceRenoGuy
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    • advice america concrete floors shower shower waste through usa waste
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: USA
  4. P

    Waterproofing walls & floors - How much is enough?

    Hi all, Having a new bathroom fitted this week and looking for advice on how far we should go with waterproofing it. The bathroom will be tiled floor to ceiling and will have a penta/corner shower cubicle, a sunken bath. Pan to wall toilet and a vanity unit / basin. top down Layout and...
  5. Y

    Two seperate manifolds on two floors

    Hi I installed ufh on two floors. My question is can I run two manifolds on two floors with one pump and mixing shunt? How do I go about connecting the manifolds together, do I run a T straight after the pump before it enters the first manifold or do I connect the second manifold after it...
  6. F

    Hot Water Not Working Cold only on bottom floors

    Hello You've probably heard this a thousand times in the last week but I have a cold/hot water supply issue.. We have no water to any taps on second floor (top). Cold water only to taps on first and ground floors. The hot water tank in the bathroom (first floor) is gravity fed from a tank in...
  7. L

    Heating Bedrooms Issue across 2 floors in 3 storey house

    Hi All, I hope you can help. I am looking for advise to try to work out if my builder is fobbing me off again or giving good advise. I live in a 3 storey 6 bedroom house. It has a Ideal Logic 24 boiler and we are having heating issues. (2 rooms on 3rd and 4 room on 2nd) with 1 x wireless...
  8. R

    Putting wastes in concrete floors... properly

    Feel free to mock me for my lack of knowledge, but if you can provide any advice whatsoever, it would be most appreciated as I want to learn which is why I'm asking these questions! When laying a waste pipe in concrete ground floor as a retrofit (for e.g. a shower tray), I can see see potential...
  9. Jay The Plumber

    siting an unvented cylinder on sloping floors

    evening folks, im putting an unvented in an old farmhouse in an upstairs room alcove area that will be eventually made into a cupboard. being an old farmhouse, the floor is all over the place, I put a bit of fibreboard down and levelled it but the floor is out in a compound angle and is a real...
  10. W

    Help! Leak from under concrete floors behind bath. Stops when boiler turned on!

    I have a leak coming from under the bath and is coming through concrete floor/wall egde. When the boiler/heating is turned on it temporarily stops. The heaters are now slowly stopping to heat up. When the water mains is turned off, it stops but this is not practical as it turned off the upstairs...
    • williamm
    • Thread
    • bath behind boiler central heating system concrete floors help leak oil stops temporarily turned under water won't
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Plumbing Jobs | The Job-board
  11. B

    Levelling floor-standing radiators on floors that aren't level!

    We're having 12, floor standing, traditional cast iron radiators installed... on floors that aren't perfectly level. What would you suggest using to pack under the legs to make them level? They will be installed on a combination of wood, tiled and carpeted floors. I was considering using...
  12. D

    new floors vs new central heating

    Hello, I have recently bought a terraced house. It has a newly refurbished wooden floors upstairs. I would like to put new gas boiler and new radiators in. I had a plumber this morning and asked him if pipes could be run accessing from bellow, not cutting floor boards. He said NO !!!! in a...
  13. B

    Pushfit under floor boards

    Walked in on a new install yesterday and there was push fit absolutely everywhere! I've never run it under floors in case of fittings leaking after time, is this the norm now?
  14. M

    When does plumber first fix

    On a building with modern engineered joist that you knock out. When do you first fix usually after the floor and all stud walls have gone up?
  15. J

    commercial cross over

    I'm thinking of doing the crossover to commercial, has anyone done this? Is it worth it ect...
  16. S

    Thermo camera

    Hi guys Can anyone recommend a good Thermo camera around £600ish? Want to use one when power flushing to see before and after and poss leak detection under floors
  17. M

    Ideal pressure for large commercial heating system

    Got a heating system in a large commercial premises to look at, its had a leak and the pressure has dropped to almost nothing. There is an O&M manual for the system but it does not state what the design pressure is for it was, is it likely to be the same a domestic installs 1 - 1.5 bar or...
  18. J

    One boiler or two for a new family home with two separate floors/apartments?? Help!!

    Hello! We have nearly completed building a two-floor family home with two separate apartments on each floor. Each apartment has an area of approximately 200 square meters. It's now time to commit to either one or two boilers; we've gotten conflicting advice. Division of utility bill costs...
  19. D

    Soil pipe overload or no?

    The 4" has 5 bathrooms (bath, basin & toilet) it also has 5 kitchens running to it. I'm just curious to if that is a lot running to the one soil or is it totally fine?
  20. M

    An I being ripped off

    Ok, I'm a spark visiting for some help so please go gentle with me. We have been refurbishing a house completely (our own house) and prior to starting we had agreed a price to replace the boiler, all of the radiators and fit 2 x bathrooms and 1 x cloakroom. During the work, very early on, it...
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