Old School House in France
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I've posted a few times on this on other threads and once or twice quite a while ago in the early days of the project but we are now almost two years in to a project to renovate a school house in our village in France. I thought it might interest a few and I'm sure that you all will be a great source of advice. Originally built in the 1890s, it's in Moselle it hasn't been used as a school for almost 20 years. We started conversations to buy it in 2021 and bought it in 2023. It took about a year to get planning permission and now we are making slow progress to renovate it. It'll be about 200m2 in the end with four bedrooms but sadly no garage yet although space for at least one.
This is what it looks like at the moment upstairs. The reason I started the thread today is that I have my first real question. So far we've had a variety of great builders doing some awesome work at I thought reasonable rates but I've just had a quote for flooring and decorating that seems really crazy. It's a big space and has a lot of high ceilings but 400 Euros a square metre is too much for me so I'll do most of it myself. The one bit I've never done before and seems the most shocking is to put down OSB on this floor to create a level surface for the flooring proper. I looked at OSB and locally it's about 12 Euro/m2 and we have about 100 m2 to do. We've been quoted nearly 20k. Do you think I need to remove the existing flooring before laying the OSB and how hard a job is it to do it myself and get it level?
Magooagain said:
What does the estimate (Devi) actually say?
Dépose de l'ensemble du plancher bois, y compris évacuation des déchet Fourniture et pose de panneaux OSB22, y compris remise à niveau du support
Speaking to the plasterer on site at the moment he suggests screwing battens to the floor to get a level and laying the OSB ontop
smifffymoto2 said:
Why not lay a lightweight chape?
I'm not really sure. That's the plan downstairs where there is an existing concrete floor, albeit not in great condition but I think upstairs with the wooden floor they want to add some rigidity as well rather than just having a level surface.Looks a shame to cover those nice boards!
I recently battened a floor and then laid board on top. Pretty easy to get it dead flat with a laser level and plastic packers and then fix 22mm chipboard, as long as you can take the height build up. With glued edges and the battens on 300 centres you’d think it was a solid concrete floor.
Why OSB rather than chipboard?
I recently battened a floor and then laid board on top. Pretty easy to get it dead flat with a laser level and plastic packers and then fix 22mm chipboard, as long as you can take the height build up. With glued edges and the battens on 300 centres you’d think it was a solid concrete floor.
Why OSB rather than chipboard?
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