Concrete floor with bamboo flooring
Concrete floor with bamboo flooring
I have a bungalow from the late 1960s. It has a black asphalt base. The previous owners did a rear extension on the same room with a concrete slab. I plan to use bamboo flooring on an underlay over both surfaces.
The issue I have is that I have a basic moisture reader device (4 pins) and on the asphalt there is a zero reading. On the concrete base it’s showing 17%. Is this bad? Will the underlay advertised with ‘a dpm’ be sufficient or is it a gimmick?
I also want to put some self-levelling...
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by Mehale
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Concrete floor with bamboo flooring
I have a bungalow from the late 1960s. It has a black asphalt base. The previous owners did a rear extension on the same room with a concrete slab. I plan to use bamboo flooring on an underlay over both surfaces.
The issue I have is that I have a basic moisture reader device (4 pins) and on the asphalt there is a zero reading. On the concrete base it’s showing 17%. Is this bad? Will the underlay advertised with ‘a dpm’ be sufficient or is it a gimmick?
I also want to put some self-levelling...
Read more
by Mehale
This has been automatically posted in the DIYNot Forum on DIY Talk. The new DIY Forum