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I checked the radon map of the UK and it seems we are in the lowest rated (<1% affected) area, so some relief if it is in fact a radon barrier!

So I found this today, the same yellow material and white tape by the front door at the other end of the hallway. It is already split :confused:.

In the meantime, I have asked the builder for plans or information.

Thanks HOJ. You could be right, especially as what is underneath looks like blockwork, and it does run in line with an internal block wall. Seems odd though that maybe it ends half across the doorway at the white tape, as the concrete after that seems very solid like the rest of the floor. If...

There are no obvious pipes or cables, or a reason for any. The detector beeped at the red and blue locations in the photo. Red is under the white tape, blue could be from fixings in the door frame, but can't tell. I don't know how to build houses, but it seems strange to have a service emerge...

Hi Bingy man, I removed a lot of the loose concrete. I can't tell what this is. The yellow plastic isn't tight fitting over whatever lays beneath, which seems hard and not hollow when tapped. The yellow plastic seems to go down vertically from the top surface, rather than horizontal. There...

Thanks Bingy man, great advice as I hadn't considered something might be concealed under that cracked section.

Thanks HappyHacker. You're right, I've been looking at this the wrong way round, trying to determine the correct process and then selecting the products, but selecting the adhesive, and working back from what it recommends would be better.

Thanks Chubber, I am a frequent over-thinker! But I've been under the impression that a herringbone floor needed to be glued down.

Thanks Cabinetman. That does look like a great solution, although I'm laying smallish herringbone boards (350mm x 80mm), and I'm not sure how it would go trying to keep boards in place while peeling the film back?

Hello! Only tangentially wood working related, but I will be installing a glued-down herringbone engineered wood floor in our hallway. I've taken the carpet up to check the concrete floor beneath and have some questions that I hope the clever people here can help with. The skirting boards and...

A desk for my 7 year old daughter. I reused a chest of drawers I made a few years ago, and made the desktop and other leg out of oak. Finished with Osmo polyx raw. First time using plugs to fill a few voids and threaded inserts to attach the top to the leg and drawers. She now has a nicer desk...

6 months later they are finally on the wall! I went with a combination of scholar's suggestion for a batten at the bottom, and some brass brackets at the top. I used 4mm dominoes in the batten to locate and hold the box. I decided not to use brass screws in the wall, as I couldn't face...

Thanks Max Power, I'm pleased to say she was. It was quite fiddly to spray, and I said to my wife I'm never spraying anything like that again. My other daughter has now asked for one too, although she asked if it can be big enough for her to get in :ROFLMAO:

For her birthday, my daughter wanted a bunk bed for her dolls. Loathed to buy more plastic, I succeeded in getting the commission to make one. Pine and MDF, spray painted.

They look different to the 204308 that I use in my CTL midi:

From back in June; made 5 of these bee hotels as gifts.

Two live edge elm shelves, with oak and elm brackets. The shelves are heavy so fingers crossed the brackets do their job and it all stays up!

I've had good results spraying Cuprinol garden shades with a Fuji mini mite 4 and a 1.8mm tip, didn't need thinning at all. Not sure about constant water contact but then I would think a planter has some kind of lining anyway.

Thanks TomGW. Do you mean to drill a small (the oak is 9mm thick) hole in the back of the uprights that would accept the filed down screwhead?