On 25 Jan 2006 05:37:13 -0800, wrote:

Why buy an old house if you are going to f**k it over by replacing
period stuff with poor quality modern alternatives?
If the flags are dry why not just leave them alone. If damp then you
could lift and re-lay on soft sand/dpm/sand/hardcore as necessary.
Concrete not necessary but insulation could be added above dpm .

cheers

Jacob

Becasue just because a house is old, doesn't mean its worth preserving.
Partcularly if large parts of it have all ready been buggered into a
shagged out old tart.

Renovating old buildings is an art, and a balance between what to get rid
of, and what to keep. Sometimes all you want is te basic wa;lls cost the
rest is rotten, nothing special, and costly to maintain.

Sometimes you want it all, because its really very pretty - even here
though - even if those flags were kept, I'd STILL rip te floor up and put
insulation and UFH down and THEN re-lay the flags.

Unless its listed the owner can do what he bloody well likes. And rightly
so.

Thats how buidlings develop over time.