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Phased Barn Conversion Temporary Flooring
A barn conversion in stages:
- Historic use: Barn
- Current use: Redundant or storage
- Temporary use: Design Office, Contractors Site Hut, Plant Room
- Final Use: Home Office, Gym, Plant room
Building:
- Brick and lime mortar, breathing building,
- Timber frame roof (some rotten) hipped ends
Interventions:
- Steel portal frame,
- Beams and timber principle and jack rafters, expressed internally,
- Radiation Barrier breathing thermal insulation:
- Pavatex materials: soft between rafters, board over the rafters
- Limecrete floor
- Temporary internal floor lining: to avoid modifying partitions and doors later
Initial floor:
- Add moisture permeable limecrete floor as base for temporary floor
- Temporary floor:
- 75 mm overall
- Temporary use: site office floor:
- Heavy wear and tear: materials, samples, equipment, tools, moisture ingress, dirt and dust, builders boots
- Wearing surface material necessary
- Moisture resistance necessary
- Consider reuse at end of first temporary life
- Consider loose laid, modular, butt jointed, heavy construction
- Pallets cut in half to thickness, fill gaps or refit boards butt jointed
- Battens and softwood to 75 mm,
- Salvaged timber into panels
- Large softwood cable drums disassembled for softwood
- Consider loose laid, overlapping, butt or T&G jointed
- Dense timber fibre reinforced desulfurisation gypsum underlayment boards
- Sacrificial top layer or show bottom face in reuse application
- Fermacell G#3191
- Dense timber fibre reinforced desulfurisation gypsum underlayment boards
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- Fibrous reinforced magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride, water
- Sacrificial top layer or show bottom face in reuse application
- Dragon board http://www.dragonboard.co.uk
- Magnesium Oxide Board
- Sacrificial top layer or show bottom face in reuse application
- Breathing OSB if flooring grade available
- Fibrous reinforced magnesium oxide and magnesium chloride, water
- Consider shower floor gratings to ventilate floor void
- Consider cabin latches to enable easy removal of panels
- Consider Ceramic tiles dry laid on rubber matrix (replaces adhesive and grout)
- http://www.solusceramics.com/services-dry-fit-system.asp
- Sorry this link no longer works and dry fit system cannot be found on their website
- Solus Ceramics G#2961
- Dry Laid Reclaimable Ceramic Floor Tiling G#2955
Final floor:
- Underfloor surface heating/cooling system:
- Manufacturer: GeoClimaDesign AG Holland
- Product Reference: Bluemat capilliary tube matting
- UK Agent: The Green Hat Trading Ltd.
Was there anything else we discussed?
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