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A floor is the bottom surface of a room or vehicle. Floors vary from simple dirt in a cave to many-layered surfaces made with modern technology. Floors may be stone, wood, bamboo, metal or any other material that can support the expected load.
The levels of a building are often referred to as floors, although a more proper term is storey.
Floors typically consist of a subfloor for support and a floor covering used to give a good walking surface. In modern buildings the subfloor often has electrical wiring, plumbing, and other services built in. As floors must meet many needs, some essential to safety, floors are built to strict building codes in some regions.

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  1. Lumen

    Capping off radiator above the floor, please advise.

    Hey guys, Quick question for all the I knowledgeable plumbers out there. I need to remove one radiator which is first in line, as that room is being knocked down. Unfortunately I can’t cap off below the floor as it’s tilled. What’s the best course of action here? Cap it off above the floor...
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  2. J

    Radiators on ground floor stone cold

    Hi, We have a issue with our heating, where the radiators upstairs are roasting hot, yet the radiators downstairs are stone cold . We had a powerflush done the other day which didn't help ...Two radiators out of four (including lock shields and TRV's) on the ground floor where changed, but...
    • jackofall
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    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: USA
  3. N

    Help with wet under floor heating temperatures

    We had a wet UFH system installed a couple of years ago. Two weeks ago we had vinyl tiles laid. The instruction from the flooring guy is to start the UFH at 5 degrees and increase by 5 degrees per day until we reach a comfortable temperature. Also, instructions from the flooring company read...
  4. C

    How much to re-level a walk in shower floor?

    The floor in my walk in shower is not level anymore so the water is collecting instead of going down the drain. How much would it cost to re-level the floor? Can the current tiles be reused? Thanks all
  5. M

    Gas pipe in wall / floor

    Good afternoon all, i'm in the process of converting a downstairs porch into a downstairs WC and have a slight snag. My dilemma is that inside the property is a gas pipe in the corner that sticks out and will be right in the way of a) the studwork being put in and b) the floor insulation...
  6. S

    What are my options replacing toilet with waste pipe in floor?

    A few years ago I had to replace my old, 1960's downstairs loo as it had a crack in it. I was told that, because the waste pipe went down into a hole in the concrete floor and because of the distance of that hole from the back wall (20cm), I'd need a loo with a concealed cistern in a large...
  7. G

    How can we find/fix leaking pipes when the pipes are set within a concrete floor

    We have had a long term problem with damp in our bungalow which exacerbated when we changed from the use of a system boiler (with pressure only from a tank in the roof of our bungalow) to a combi boiler (with full mains pressure) and a major leak was then found and dealt with. (This leak had...
    • Greg
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    • Forum: USA
  8. A

    Routing mains water pipe under the floor?!?

    Hi, I have my mains pipe coming into the side of my house which is copper. I am going to have the adjacent wall studded out (to the left in pic) and therefore want to hide the mains pipe behind it and put on a low profile stop tap in which can be accessible via a flap or something. There is an...
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    • Forum: USA
  9. B

    Where to position CH pipes under groundfloor suspended floor

    I am about to insulate a suspended timber groundfloor in a 1930s semi. The joists are 2"x5" with about 400mm of air space below. The pipes currently run below the floor, and the pipework is a mess, with very little insulation. As I need to reroute pipes anyway, am I best running them between the...
    • bwt
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  10. A

    Top floor Flat - Mains Booster advice

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  11. GameForkStudio

    Best way to connect a toilet to a floor outlet.

    Hi all, Hope you are all well. I removed an old toilet from a wetroom. I wanted to replace it with a modern toilet. The old toilet had a separate cistern connected to it via a 90° pipe (this pushed the toilet away from The wall) and the outlet was a 90° connector that went into the floor. My...
    • GameForkStudio
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  12. S

    Bringing pipework through ensuite floor

    When bringing pipework through the floor of the ensuite, I wonder just how tight I need to make the fit between the floor and the pipework? I have seen a previous comment about getting the fit as tight as possible, but I’m not sure why that is necessary? Reason I ask is that it will be a PITA...
  13. T

    Under floor heating system issue

    Hi. Hoping for some advice. Yesterday I did have an authorised tech round whom fitted a new control board and electrode/cable and my DUO TEC Compact+ 24 GA came back to life but things are not going as expected and unfortunately I am in Lithuania full time since lockdown and do not speak...
  14. W

    I have a cracked 1.5" pipe elbow going into a 4" main drain under basement floor. How do I fix this?

    Hey guys My wife noticed water on the floor in our basement. What I can see is that the elbow is cracked where a 1.5" down pipe enters a 4" pipe that goes beneath the basement concrete floor. My thought is that I have to break up some concrete to replace the 4" pipe/clean out and reattached...
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  15. A

    Ground floor toilet waste location

    Busy rebuilding an old bathroom in an old cottage. Bathroom is downstairs and on removing the toilet I can see it goes straight into the ground (see photo). We did want to site the loo about 3ft to the right but cannot for the an extension to the pipe through the cabinets. I could box off the...
    • andyc209
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    • Forum: USA
  16. R

    How do I top up the water in the radiators on an Ideal Mexico super 2 floor boiler?

    I am needing to bleed the radiators at the church building and I opened up the boiler cupboard to see if there are any cock valves to refill the system, but can't locate any. I haven't been able to locate a pressure gauge either and it appears that this boiler doe not have a loft tank either...
    • RevDave
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    • Forum: USA
  17. A

    Under Floor Heating - one of the valves sticking?

    Hi - I'm not sure what these things in the picture are called, but water flows to each room when the "float" moves down, but one is stuck. Last year a heating engineer came and unstuck the valve by tapping on it with his screwdriver head. I've tried that, but no luck - three of the floats move...
  18. J

    new bathroom fitted bath draining out via shower and floor

    just had new bathroom fitted ..taken 8 weeks ..so far! Bath is emptying via shower and all over the whole bathroom floor. Fitter says must be my drains. He is speaking of attempting to get under floor in next door airing cupboard which houses the gas boiler and try to put a vent pipe into the...
    • jenny105
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    • Forum: Ireland
  19. Suzan

    Joist not reaching the end

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    • Forum: Ireland
  20. A

    Sewage smells in bathroom of 2nd (top) floor flat in Leeds, UK

    We have various smells - usually sewage - coming from our bathroom occasionally. Sometimes every day then nothing for a week or two. It's a second/top floor flat and the smells come from the main bathroom wihch shares the soil pipe with floors below. We have checked all of the traps (sink, bath...
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