Gap Between Floors In New Extension

[alexpuk2002]

I'll get some measurements tomorrow of the gaps. I do know that the new caberdeck floor is slightly lower than the original floorboards. This is around 3mm on one side and about 4mm on the other.

This is not taking into account what the gap is currently where the bricks are.

Luckily at them moment when walking from room to room there isn't any noticeable difference when walking over them, so as long as I can cover the area where the bricks are with a level piece of wood or mortar mix, then this should be fine when a carpet is fitted.

As someone previously mentioned, the builder should have sorted this out as part of the build, but they seemed to have missed it and mentioned that when the finished floor goes down, it will be fine. I should have picked up on this at the time and got them to fix it, but with all the building works going on it was something that I have missed until now when I am decorating the 2 rooms.

 

[noseall]

the builder should have sorted this out as part of the build, but they seemed to have missed it and mentioned that when the finished floor goes down, it will be fine. I should have picked up on this at the time and got them to fix it, but with all the building works going on it was something that I have missed until now when I am decorating the 2 rooms.

Your builder is a lazy twonk. A piece of ply screwed to cradling will be fine in the gap. Don't use cement products. You will regret it.

 

[alexpuk2002]

I have done measuring of the gaps that are between the existing floorboards and the new caberdeck flooring. I used packers of different heights to show the difference in levels of the 2 floors. The packers on the edge of the caberdeck floor show the difference in height from the original floorboards. The packers that are placed on the bricks show the difference in height between the bricks in between the floors and the actual floor on either side.

Now I know in an ideal world to get the best result I would need to raise the entire caberdeck floor to the same height as the original floorboard height, but that is just too much work for me to do right now, so I am going to just focus on getting as close to level over the bricks between the floors. I know there will be a slight slope involved but hopefully it shouldn't be too noticeable when walking between the rooms once the underlay and carpet has been fitted.

Below is the photo that shows the packers. For reference the colours of the packers are the following heights.

Black = 2mm
White - 3mm
Grey = 4mm
Blue = 5mm
Red = 6mm

There are 2 packers that have red and white on top of each other so this is 9mm which seems to be the lowest point.

https://flic.kr/p/2rDgvwJ

I have seen some easyshims that are used for different level floors to provide a ramp which I think may be an option to use to fit ober the bricks.

https://www.flooringsuppliesuk.com/products/stairrods-easyshims-for-flooring?variant=36614122668196

 

[noseall]

I have done measuring of the gaps that are between the existing floorboards and the new caberdeck flooring. I used packers of different heights to show the difference in levels of the 2 floors. The packers on the edge of the caberdeck floor show the difference in height from the original floorboards. The packers that are placed on the bricks show the difference in height between the bricks in between the floors and the actual floor on either side.

Now I know in an ideal world to get the best result I would need to raise the entire caberdeck floor to the same height as the original floorboard height, but that is just too much work for me to do right now, so I am going to just focus on getting as close to level over the bricks between the floors. I know there will be a slight slope involved but hopefully it shouldn't be too noticeable when walking between the rooms once the underlay and carpet has been fitted.

Below is the photo that shows the packers. For reference the colours of the packers are the following heights.

Black = 2mm
White - 3mm
Grey = 4mm
Blue = 5mm
Red = 6mm

There are 2 packers that have red and white on top of each other so this is 9mm which seems to be the lowest point.

https://flic.kr/p/2rDgvwJ

I have seen some easyshims that are used for different level floors to provide a ramp which I think may be an option to use to fit ober the bricks.

https://www.flooringsuppliesuk.com/products/stairrods-easyshims-for-flooring?variant=36614122668196

Lose the bricks. Screw some deck in.