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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.
konastab01-
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.
Yeah. I was chatting with Hov last night and he thought the same; multi-tool out a patch of the ceiling then work from below. Replace the patch with plasterboard and try to make good. He seemed to think that even if it was lath and plaster it's still not too horrendous.
The engineered floor is a funny one because it's not what I would choose, but it's growing on me and it's everywhere in the house and it's mostly in fairly good condition. Plenty of meat on it too so it could be sanded back. Originally I thought in five years time we'd rip it all out but now I'm not so sure.
Howard
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.)