Hi,
So got a little bit of a problem that I'm not sure how to tackle.
I'm renovating my bathroom, the floors been up for ages and I decided to lay a new subfloor as the old planks had had it.
I am not checking the level of the joists and whilst I expected them to be a bit out as it's an old house they are actually far more out that I imagined.
Here is a picture with a laser level showing the problem.
The beams are also a bit higgledy piggledy between themselves as well (i.e. they do not drop evenly from one to the next).
As it's a whole floorboards width by the time it gets to the middle of the room in order to level it up by adding height to the joists as they go to the right it would create a 18+mm lip on entering the bathroom, which is far from ideal.
I only plan on laying LVT over the top of it so my most immediate reaction is to just say sod it and screw down the ply over the top and have an uneven floor, although I'm not sure if that would cause other problems... should I attempt to get it flat even if I can't get it level - so it would slope as it goes from the left to the right (as per the photo) but the boards themselves would be 'flat'?
So got a little bit of a problem that I'm not sure how to tackle.
I'm renovating my bathroom, the floors been up for ages and I decided to lay a new subfloor as the old planks had had it.
I am not checking the level of the joists and whilst I expected them to be a bit out as it's an old house they are actually far more out that I imagined.
Here is a picture with a laser level showing the problem.
The beams are also a bit higgledy piggledy between themselves as well (i.e. they do not drop evenly from one to the next).
As it's a whole floorboards width by the time it gets to the middle of the room in order to level it up by adding height to the joists as they go to the right it would create a 18+mm lip on entering the bathroom, which is far from ideal.
I only plan on laying LVT over the top of it so my most immediate reaction is to just say sod it and screw down the ply over the top and have an uneven floor, although I'm not sure if that would cause other problems... should I attempt to get it flat even if I can't get it level - so it would slope as it goes from the left to the right (as per the photo) but the boards themselves would be 'flat'?