I'm going to install a solid wood floor on the ground floor of our house and I have a few questions:
1. The floor will cover two rooms that have been knocked into one. One has a screed sub-floor, the other is boards. Half of the boards have been replaced at some time and one end of the room is about 4mm higher with the rise taking place over ~1m. Elsewhere the floors are both pretty level.
How best to prepare the sub-floor and install the flooring? I had considered installing battens on both floors and planing them down at the high end of the room to level and then nailing. However reading around a bit makes me wonder if I should just install ply over the boards, caulk and level the lot with self-levelling compound and then float the floor.
2. I would like to run the flooring so that is runs through both rooms but this means that there isn't one continuous wall to start from. Any tips for getting both halves of the room aligned other than very careful measuring? It did strike me that floating the floor would give me more leeway on getting them aligned.
Thanks in advance.
1. The floor will cover two rooms that have been knocked into one. One has a screed sub-floor, the other is boards. Half of the boards have been replaced at some time and one end of the room is about 4mm higher with the rise taking place over ~1m. Elsewhere the floors are both pretty level.
How best to prepare the sub-floor and install the flooring? I had considered installing battens on both floors and planing them down at the high end of the room to level and then nailing. However reading around a bit makes me wonder if I should just install ply over the boards, caulk and level the lot with self-levelling compound and then float the floor.
2. I would like to run the flooring so that is runs through both rooms but this means that there isn't one continuous wall to start from. Any tips for getting both halves of the room aligned other than very careful measuring? It did strike me that floating the floor would give me more leeway on getting them aligned.
Thanks in advance.
