Filling a hollow at kitchen doorway - what to use?

[HarryM]

My kitchen floor is concrete and there is a hollow near the exterior door caused by traffic. The area to be filled is like a short passage way just over a door's width and only a few feet long, so it only has to be brought up level with the kitchen floor at one end. The area to be filled is less than half a square metre, about 25mm at the deepest, tapering to nothing at the kitchen end. The worn area is mostly concrete but there is a granite block adjacent to the door.

Is there anything more economical and practical that self-levelling compound? That seems very costly for such a small area. Would a 3:1 cement/sand mix be OK? The surface has to be suitable for tiling with ceramic tiles.

 

[HarryM]

Sorry, where I said deepest depth was 25mm that should have been 15mm.

 

[mattysupra]

to shallow for sand and cement. Try to get some floor repair mortar. Same as smoothing compound but mixed so not runny. Throw it into your hollow and then drag level/flat with some timber or something. Then polish smooth with trowel 15 mins later with light mist of water over it.

 

[HarryM]

Thanks mattysupra