Happy New Year all. I expect this question has already been asked in some form or another, so I apologise in advance should i be correct.
I have been asked by friends to price for laying a new solid timber floor 200mm x 22mm random length hardwood grade t&g, it can be floated or secret nailed. So the conundrum is this, they have had their kitchen and the scullery knocked into rather large room. The existing kitchen is suspended timber floor whereas the scullery is concrete, poss concrete and screed. However the concrete/screed floor is higher than the timber boarded floor in the kitchen by about 2" to 1".
Now this is where I need advice, I see I have options here, firstly I cannot raise the timber floor to suit the concrete because this would cause big steps in the door ways into the kitchen. So I reckon I can either remove the "screed" lay down a dpm then batten and ply the concrete to bring it to the height of timber floor should the new floor be secret nailed, or if I were to float the new floor then I could remove existing screed have the floor re-screeded to align with height of suspended kitchen floor and bobs your uncle.
I really am not sure, so any advice from the experts would be great, thank you.
I have been asked by friends to price for laying a new solid timber floor 200mm x 22mm random length hardwood grade t&g, it can be floated or secret nailed. So the conundrum is this, they have had their kitchen and the scullery knocked into rather large room. The existing kitchen is suspended timber floor whereas the scullery is concrete, poss concrete and screed. However the concrete/screed floor is higher than the timber boarded floor in the kitchen by about 2" to 1".
Now this is where I need advice, I see I have options here, firstly I cannot raise the timber floor to suit the concrete because this would cause big steps in the door ways into the kitchen. So I reckon I can either remove the "screed" lay down a dpm then batten and ply the concrete to bring it to the height of timber floor should the new floor be secret nailed, or if I were to float the new floor then I could remove existing screed have the floor re-screeded to align with height of suspended kitchen floor and bobs your uncle.
I really am not sure, so any advice from the experts would be great, thank you.