lay new flooring on top or rip up and start from scratch?

[chrisinnotts]

Our new kitchen extension is near to completion but my OH and I are in disagreement about the floor.
The original kitchen floor is very uneven concrete with fairly even parquet flooring on top which we laid many years ago soon after we moved in. It is basically sound with no loose tiles. The new extension is block and beam with concrete/dpm/water-resistant chipboard.

My choice would be to leave the parquet tiles alone and simply lay a new floor (laminate or wood) on top, bringing the new bit up to the same level with fibreboard underlay or similar.
My OH favours ripping the parquet tiles up first.....
Any views on this dilemma would be most welcome.
Thanks.

 

[DAZB]

I'm on your side. Unless your lass is dying to have a go at levelling a concrete floor then I would leave it and go over with the new.

 

[WoodYouLike]

If you install a new wood floor ontop of your parquet (5-fingers mosaic?) be aware not to close off the moist evaporation the parquet allows. Specially be careful with laminated floors (plastic!)
Better wood be wood-engineered flooring on top of foam underlayment (without DPM!)

 

[chrisinnotts]

That's an interesting point, thank you (the parquet is 5 finger mosaic) I hadn't considered the fact that laminate isn't wood and therefore doesn't breathe.