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Hi,
Sorry for the detail, but, please read, if you can be bothered and have expert advice.
I have a reasonably large rectangular kitchen that has been extended from the original, tiny, 1931 space.
The original space is in the bottom left of the extended kitchen (1980ish).
The original outer corner of the house is still there, internal to the 'new' space which has been extended, back and to the right.
I think the subfloor is wood, but then has old ceramic tiles, 2mm foam and then old 8mm sheet laminate. (I've yet to smash a tile but have taken the laminate off one spot)
Gone to SEs to remove the internal L shaped wall and after a suggested 5!!! steel solution to completely remove the internal L wall, have paid for a 1 steel design to remove the part of the L that blocks light from the back of the kitchen but will leave a single slab supporting section (outer right external wall). ("we assume there is 225mm of concrete under the walls and clay under that, dig an inspection pit, here is our fee")
Before I go for a builder, have been looking at the floor. This crackles in a few spaces when you walk on it.
It is generally level but has a few planes where it is level. dips several mm for 30 cm and then goes up again to the original level over 30 cm (coinciding with the 'grouted' squares of the laminate sheet.
Then it can be level at another point around the internal wall but have a slope different from the above.
The laminate will have been down for 20ish+ years.
We have found some 4.5mm LVT that we love, but it says that its tolerance is 3mm in 3m (how many floors in the world do this?)
DO THEY QUOTE THESE TOLERANCES SO ALWAYS HAVE A GET OUT.
Laminates and even natural lino all seem to specify a very level floor.
What to do?
Sorry for the detail, but, please read, if you can be bothered and have expert advice.
I have a reasonably large rectangular kitchen that has been extended from the original, tiny, 1931 space.
The original space is in the bottom left of the extended kitchen (1980ish).
The original outer corner of the house is still there, internal to the 'new' space which has been extended, back and to the right.
I think the subfloor is wood, but then has old ceramic tiles, 2mm foam and then old 8mm sheet laminate. (I've yet to smash a tile but have taken the laminate off one spot)
Gone to SEs to remove the internal L shaped wall and after a suggested 5!!! steel solution to completely remove the internal L wall, have paid for a 1 steel design to remove the part of the L that blocks light from the back of the kitchen but will leave a single slab supporting section (outer right external wall). ("we assume there is 225mm of concrete under the walls and clay under that, dig an inspection pit, here is our fee")
Before I go for a builder, have been looking at the floor. This crackles in a few spaces when you walk on it.
It is generally level but has a few planes where it is level. dips several mm for 30 cm and then goes up again to the original level over 30 cm (coinciding with the 'grouted' squares of the laminate sheet.
Then it can be level at another point around the internal wall but have a slope different from the above.
The laminate will have been down for 20ish+ years.
We have found some 4.5mm LVT that we love, but it says that its tolerance is 3mm in 3m (how many floors in the world do this?)
DO THEY QUOTE THESE TOLERANCES SO ALWAYS HAVE A GET OUT.
Laminates and even natural lino all seem to specify a very level floor.
What to do?
