I have not seen this query covered elsewhere, so looking for some advice.
I plan to lay a solid oak floor onto a wooden sub-floor, which has a noticable curve on it from the centre of the room to the sides. With some of the floorboards up I can see that this high point is where the joists are resting on a small supporting wall as part of the foundations of the house.
I haven't yet measured it but I would estimate that the edge of the room sits about 50mm lower that the central portion that is over the support wall.
My question really is this (might be better in a building forum but got to start somewhere): would I be better to lower the centre of the room by reducing/removing some joist packing or try and level off the room using some other self levelling/plywood method? or combination of both?
I plan to lay a solid oak floor onto a wooden sub-floor, which has a noticable curve on it from the centre of the room to the sides. With some of the floorboards up I can see that this high point is where the joists are resting on a small supporting wall as part of the foundations of the house.
I haven't yet measured it but I would estimate that the edge of the room sits about 50mm lower that the central portion that is over the support wall.
My question really is this (might be better in a building forum but got to start somewhere): would I be better to lower the centre of the room by reducing/removing some joist packing or try and level off the room using some other self levelling/plywood method? or combination of both?
