Hi all,
I'm in the process of building a house and will be putting down a
solidwood floor throughout. The base flooring within the house is concrete
and therefore I must wait until the moisture content of the content of the
concrete drops below 3 or 4 % before the flooring can be layed. I've been
warned not to use artificial moisture extractors to speed up the process as
they will do considerable damage to the concrete (particularily wall
plaster) but to wait and let it dry the natural way. My question is what
could be used as a temporary flooring measure which isn't expensive and
would keep down dust and dirt and thus permit living in the house.

Regards

Seamus

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Seamus Mc Loughlin wrote:
My question is what could be used as a temporary flooring measure which
isn't expensive and would keep down dust and dirt and thus permit living
in the house.

Is rush matting still available? Cheap carpet tiles or contract carpet?

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"Seamus Mc Loughlin" wrote in message
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Hi all,
I'm in the process of building a house and will be putting down a
solidwood floor throughout. The base flooring within the house is concrete
and therefore I must wait until the moisture content of the content of the
concrete drops below 3 or 4 % before the flooring can be layed. I've been
warned not to use artificial moisture extractors to speed up the process
as
they will do considerable damage to the concrete (particularily wall
plaster) but to wait and let it dry the natural way. My question is what
could be used as a temporary flooring measure which isn't expensive and
would keep down dust and dirt and thus permit living in the house.

Regards


Other peoples's cast off (hessian backed) carpet roughly cut to size.

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:19:35 -0000, "Seamus Mc Loughlin"
wrote:

Hi all,
I'm in the process of building a house and will be putting down a
solidwood floor throughout. The base flooring within the house is concrete
and therefore I must wait until the moisture content of the content of the
concrete drops below 3 or 4 % before the flooring can be layed. I've been
warned not to use artificial moisture extractors to speed up the process as
they will do considerable damage to the concrete (particularily wall
plaster) but to wait and let it dry the natural way. My question is what
could be used as a temporary flooring measure which isn't expensive and
would keep down dust and dirt and thus permit living in the house.

Look in exchange and mart for ex-exhibition carpet. An average 3 bed
house would cost about £200 to £250 to have carpeted throughout....no
work on your part!

sPoNiX

Seamus Mc Loughlin wrote:

Hi all,
I'm in the process of building a house and will be putting down a
solidwood floor throughout. The base flooring within the house is concrete
and therefore I must wait until the moisture content of the content of the
concrete drops below 3 or 4 % before the flooring can be layed. I've been
warned not to use artificial moisture extractors to speed up the process as
they will do considerable damage to the concrete (particularily wall
plaster) but to wait and let it dry the natural way. My question is what
could be used as a temporary flooring measure which isn't expensive and
would keep down dust and dirt and thus permit living in the house.

Regards

Seamus


We lived with teh concrete and the dust for some months actually...but
one thing I would have done is PVA the floor as soon as its nearly dry.

Then cheap rugs - check out skips and auctions - or indeed expensive
rugs - cover up the worst of it. You can use th expesnive rugs to cocvre
up teh expensive floor later on..