Our Edinburgh Tenement Project
At the end of my last post, the floor was ready to tile, and our slates were all ready to go. I got sorted out with some adhesive, a 10mm notched trowel to make a good deep bed of said adhesive, some 5mm spacers and some grout. First up, since we’re using natural slate, it…
We needed to replace our floor in the new kitchen, and decided to go with a slate floor since DIYing it meant that didn’t get too expensive. We already had to replace the floorboards, because there were quite a few missing and I wanted to save the good ones for repairs elsewhere in the flat,…
In flats, soundproofing is important. There are loads of rules about it in the building standards, but having lived in a modern flat and now in our Victorian flat, I think they did a better job of it 120 years ago. When it comes to soundproofing, mass is your friend. Lightweight materials won’t absorb and…