This is really a speculative post.
Our kitchen used to be two rooms. Part of the room is concrete floor, the other half is wooden floorboards. The floorboards are slightly higher than the concrete, about 3mm, not much but enough to look ugly with any type of sheet floorcovering (lino, carpet)
It also makes tiling the floor impossible.
I have read posts about self-levelling compound, plyboarding over, etc, but I dont fancy a step up into the kitchen.
Would an alternative option be to take up the floorboards, take the joists out, and fill the void with rubble etc, and concrete it to level? What sort of problems would we come across? The void has a concrete base anyway and is about 30 inches from the floor level.
I know there is a sleeper wall between this void and the rest of the house, so this would need infilling before work started. Theres also a gas pipe down there, and heating pipes. Under the sub-concrete is our water main, which emerges from the concrete floor at the other side of the room.
Our kitchen used to be two rooms. Part of the room is concrete floor, the other half is wooden floorboards. The floorboards are slightly higher than the concrete, about 3mm, not much but enough to look ugly with any type of sheet floorcovering (lino, carpet)
It also makes tiling the floor impossible.
I have read posts about self-levelling compound, plyboarding over, etc, but I dont fancy a step up into the kitchen.
Would an alternative option be to take up the floorboards, take the joists out, and fill the void with rubble etc, and concrete it to level? What sort of problems would we come across? The void has a concrete base anyway and is about 30 inches from the floor level.
I know there is a sleeper wall between this void and the rest of the house, so this would need infilling before work started. Theres also a gas pipe down there, and heating pipes. Under the sub-concrete is our water main, which emerges from the concrete floor at the other side of the room.
