Carpets, Lino & Flooring

Screed concrete floor, looking to reinstate floorboards

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.17 PM

Our new house (due to move in a month or so) is a Victorian end of terrace house but it has been extended and renovated during its life. Upstairs still has original floorboards, but downstairs appears to be screed concrete which has been carpeted over and tiled in the kitchen. We would ideally like to put solid wooden floors down to match the upstairs flooring, and new tiles in the kitchen area, but are struggling to work out exactly what's possible given the current construction. The survey confirmed that the ground floor is likely to be screed concrete, and from lifting the carpet it does appear to be the case... There is no airbrick visable. However, there are airbricks visible in the two next door houses in the same terrace and we're wondering if it may have been blocked up when the property was externally rendered. I have heard that it might be possible that the screed has been put over existing floorboards in the original part of the house. Our main questions are: - how can we tell the exact construction of the floors in the new place? Would we need to chip away at the concrete to see if there are floorboards underneath? Would this even be advisable, or possible to expose them, flip them and sand them down..? - Would it be better just to try to fit floorboards over the top of the concrete as it is now? I’d appreciate hearing your thoughts and opinions as this is all new territory for me! Many thanks in advance