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Designing the floor to code

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Designing the floor to code

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- Chapter two, where looking at the sorts of things you need to consider when designing a floor to building code. Now, the floor I've gotten at the moment is a beam and block concrete suspended floor. It has to have a minimum 150 millimeter air gap below it but there's no crawl space as such in there unless you can squeeze yourself through a one hundred and fifty mil air gap. So the sorts of design decisions we need to make are those about the floor thickness that we can achieve if we are not limited to space. And that's a good thing. Whether we have any eco credentials, maybe we don't want to use some of the Polyisocyanurate style, uh, rigid insulation boards. Maybe we would prefer to use something different more natural, like a mineral wool for example or sheep's wool or something else. There are certain things that you just simply can't use because it's not appropriate but the main types of…

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