Tiles on the hall floor

Well I decided now the walls are plastered it's time to get on with getting some flooring down and make the house look like a home.

I have two places that I can place the flooring down on, the hall and the dining room

I want to get on with the laminate but I'm waiting on the plumber to move the radiator from the kitchen to the dining room to give us some more space out there.

So it's time to get some tiles down in the hall. It's a messy job but it needs doing, I purchased a dry mix of floor tile adhesive and it's not easy getting the mixture right.

I think I got there in the end

So I got the under stairs part down, what do you think?

I plan to lay the tiles then fit the skirting boards over the top.

Let's hope it looks better than it is at the moment.

The tiles are from Wickes

Can't worm my way out of this.....

Well today we decided to see what was causing the soft floor boards in the front room. We lifted the carpet for a better look.

My bet was they was rotten.

Ok the 1st one appeared like I was right it looked like they had rotted from age so we cut back the board to tidy up and make it so we can fit new boards.

On removing the other rotten bit of floor board we found it not to be rotten!

All those tiny holes are from wood worm and itl looks like we have a lot of wood worm.

Multiple sections need replacing to get rid of the brittle wood and replace it with new sections of board.

On inspection of the joists so far I'd dissent appear that there is an issue with them

I went off to collect supplies of new floor board and see if I can find something to treat the wood

On my return we cut some planks to size and fitted them into the spaces and nailed them down. 

Now to treat the wood to make it wood worm free!

Ok this was not cheap but it was available at the time to start treating the wood and killing off the wood worm!

WARNING: this product is very harmful to animals, humans and to the environment. Wear rubber gloves and eye protection. Wash thoroughly if it touched your skin!