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Any mileage in attacking it from the ceiling below? Kinda feels like cutting out a wedge of plaster then doing the work from underneath might actually be easier. Ceiling finish is shite too so a bit of money spent fixing that up wouldn't be quite so bad as a whole new floor just to move a radiator.
(it's possible the ceiling isn't original, it's been deprived of any texturing and decoration. But then there's a chance it might be lath and plaster in which case, no dice.)
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Id say that is probably the easy thing to fix, the floors expensive and if it doesn't go back down which from experience never does your then at the expensive point of redoing it all because of a radiator.
You'll also be able to patch the ceiling yourself i imagine but then again there is so many unknowns to this job that you dont see until you start it and that sometimes is how its hard to go it'll cost £60 from a person doing the job. Hence how now we try and give ball point figures as ive been caught too many times with a price and ended up shafting myself via unforeseen things.
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Don't forget to anticipate a load of crap coming down with the ceiling -deliberately added ashey stuff for mass as well as randomly accumulated crap that's fallen through the floorboards over the decades.
konastab01
hoefla
Yeah the floor there is back to front but how are the boards laid underneath probably going by your luck it’ll be the opposite direction so it’s hard to guess until you lift it and as you said if the floor comes up easy your onto a winner if it’s glued and breaks your fucked.