Hi all
I want to lay ceramic tiles in my kitchen before the new kitchen arrives. It is a kitchen house (that's what we call them in Belfast).There are 2 problems.
I have knocked down a wall between the old 3ft x 8 ft kitchen and the next room to give me an overall size of 13 ft x 8 ft.
The first problem is that the kitchen part has a concrete floor and the other room has floorboards on joists with a 24inch drop to ground level (soil)
The second dilema ia that the concrete floor is about 7mm lower than the wooden floor but if I ply and tile the wooden floor this will raise the wooden floor by another 19mm approx.
It is not possible to raise the concrete floor around the back door entrance more than a few mm or it wont open. The door is a double glazed unit with a very low threshold.
Could somone suggest a cost effective (ie very cheap) way to remedy this.
Is the best way 1/ a ramp of sorts around the door
2/ move the door unit completely
3/ tile directly onto floorboards
4/ replace floorboards with minimum thickness flooring and tile dirctly onto this (what would that thickness be ??)
5/ remove flooboards and joists and fit a concrete floor on the other room up to the height of the existing concrete floor
My head is really pickled on this one - all suggestions greatly appreciated.
anto
I want to lay ceramic tiles in my kitchen before the new kitchen arrives. It is a kitchen house (that's what we call them in Belfast).There are 2 problems.
I have knocked down a wall between the old 3ft x 8 ft kitchen and the next room to give me an overall size of 13 ft x 8 ft.
The first problem is that the kitchen part has a concrete floor and the other room has floorboards on joists with a 24inch drop to ground level (soil)
The second dilema ia that the concrete floor is about 7mm lower than the wooden floor but if I ply and tile the wooden floor this will raise the wooden floor by another 19mm approx.
It is not possible to raise the concrete floor around the back door entrance more than a few mm or it wont open. The door is a double glazed unit with a very low threshold.
Could somone suggest a cost effective (ie very cheap) way to remedy this.
Is the best way 1/ a ramp of sorts around the door
2/ move the door unit completely
3/ tile directly onto floorboards
4/ replace floorboards with minimum thickness flooring and tile dirctly onto this (what would that thickness be ??)
5/ remove flooboards and joists and fit a concrete floor on the other room up to the height of the existing concrete floor
My head is really pickled on this one - all suggestions greatly appreciated.
anto