I just bought an apartment in an old farmhouse from 1850. It was meant to be demolished when newer houses around it were built 18 years ago, but it is Q-marked, so it was renovated and converted into housing instead.
Due to water damage (a separate story), we have cut open the floor in the bedroom. From top to bottom, the structure consists of:
- Parquet with underlying foam/vapor barrier
- 2 x 13 mm floor gypsum
- 22 mm floor chipboard
The above rests on new joists from 2004. Then:
- Air gap of about 30 cm for installations (water pipes, drainage, electricity, etc.)
- Old beams with mineral wool in between
- Garden slabs 300 x 300 x 50 mm, lowered between the beams
- Plank (old) - attached under the old beams
- Acoustic panel
- 2 x 13 mm gypsum
Now to my question:
What function do the garden slabs serve?
Looking forward to your wise answers
Due to water damage (a separate story), we have cut open the floor in the bedroom. From top to bottom, the structure consists of:
- Parquet with underlying foam/vapor barrier
- 2 x 13 mm floor gypsum
- 22 mm floor chipboard
The above rests on new joists from 2004. Then:
- Air gap of about 30 cm for installations (water pipes, drainage, electricity, etc.)
- Old beams with mineral wool in between
- Garden slabs 300 x 300 x 50 mm, lowered between the beams
- Plank (old) - attached under the old beams
- Acoustic panel
- 2 x 13 mm gypsum
Now to my question:
What function do the garden slabs serve?
Looking forward to your wise answers
I assume there is an inhabited apartment below you. The function of the garden tiles is probably to make the floor structure heavy, to reduce footstep noise and vibrations in the floor structure.
Yes, that's correct. Soundproofing was one of my hypotheses. It's completely silent between the floors.
The reason I'm asking is that my water damage is also in the ceiling of the neighbor below. It's a water pipe with a hole, in the wall between my bedroom and my bathroom. The hole comes from a nail in a baseboard that has been there for 18 years and when I removed the baseboard a few weeks ago to install a new one, the nail was also pulled out and the water started seeping.
My water damage only affects my bedroom (part of the wall and floor) which is adjacent to my bathroom, but the neighbor's damage is in their bathroom ceiling. Their ceiling will need to be torn down, possibly dried, and then repaired. I think it's life-threatening to tear it down from below. And maybe even tougher to get the tiles back from below… They are 30x30x5 cm and probably quite heavy.
But, if they have the function you both describe, you certainly don't want to skip reinstalling them…
The reason I'm asking is that my water damage is also in the ceiling of the neighbor below. It's a water pipe with a hole, in the wall between my bedroom and my bathroom. The hole comes from a nail in a baseboard that has been there for 18 years and when I removed the baseboard a few weeks ago to install a new one, the nail was also pulled out and the water started seeping.
My water damage only affects my bedroom (part of the wall and floor) which is adjacent to my bathroom, but the neighbor's damage is in their bathroom ceiling. Their ceiling will need to be torn down, possibly dried, and then repaired. I think it's life-threatening to tear it down from below. And maybe even tougher to get the tiles back from below… They are 30x30x5 cm and probably quite heavy.
But, if they have the function you both describe, you certainly don't want to skip reinstalling them…