If your new floor cupped, lifted or smelled musty within months, the subfloor was almost certainly too wet when you laid it. This is one of the most common flooring failures in Newcastle’s older housing stock. This article shows you how to find moisture before it ruins a floor, how to read the readings, and what to do about each cause. You will finish with a practical testing routine you can run yourself.

Why Newcastle subfloors hold moisture

Two things stack up here. First, a lot of Tyneside housing is Victorian or Edwardian with solid ground floors that were never