Help with this floor please

[Bretthehitman]

Hi guys,

I have an issue with this floor (photos attached).

So basically, I have removed a wall between the kitchen and dining area which has left this hole. Half of the kitchen floor is the original wood floor and the other half is some sort of concrete. I need to level this out with the boards which are coming from the dining area. What is the best way to do this?

From the photos, you can see 4/5 new floorboards which are around 4mm out from the concrete. I eventually want to use laminate flooring throughout the dining and kitchen area. I hope you can help.

 

[johnny2007]

Looks like they poured a very thin layer of concrete onto floorboards.
Hit it with a hammer and it will crumble.
Then check if floorboards are levelled with existing.
Where the wall was you can use timber to bring to same level, then planer to get to correct level.
Or sand and cement.

 

[ted456]

the other half, the dining area also has a t and g boarded floor similar to the kitchen floor. you can just see the tips of t and g boards peepin out.
on top of these tandg boards theres what looks like some kind of sheet mats with a thin skin of mortar or SLC on top.
lift everything down to the t and g and then see if the boards are level across from dining area to kitchen.

where the old wall was you'll have to drop the brick courses and fix maybe two new joists in the gap to pick up
the edges of the t and g boards from both kitchen and from dining area that are floating loose and need to be fixed to the new joists.
all new boards will need fixing at their ends.

until you lift the sheet mats and show the dining areaboards its not easy to say where to cut whats existing and where and how tofix new boards.
the newish offcuts might be the remains of old doorway threshold?

 

[Bretthehitman]

Thanks for the reply guys. So I’m going to take some more pics tomorrow and show you guys what is hiding around that concrete area.

My neighbour has just let me known that the previous owner had a long term leaking washing machine in the kitchen. This Has led me to believe that there are no joists underneath as they may have rotted. My guess is that they have propped up a makeshift subfloor and used concrete over it bring it up to level. But like I said I will take some more pics and post them tomorrow and keep all progress updated.