Just bought an 1890ish cottage in need of much work for retirement starting next week. In a ground floor room i could feel under the carpet that the floor was uneven, this was commented on by my surveyor but he seemed to think nothing of it. My idea was to expose floorboards so I stripped off the carpet and a hardboard layer where I found areas of what looked like powdery screed in dips. Anyway the floorboard are all cut about and to my untrained eye it looks as though there was some sort of settlement at the ends of a couple of joists. Can anyone give me an idea of choices, I've read that I could use 6mm ply with latex screed on top
uneven floor
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Hi, have a read here. //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=77960
Sorry i dont understand what your asking. Can you explain a bit more.
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Think i understand, so you are asking if the smoothing compound will chip up / flake away as you will need to feather the edge (smooth out the edge) ?
If so then no it wont providing -
You use use the correct primer
You prime past where the compound will finish
Smoothing compounds are happy to be 'feather' finished (finished to 1mm deep) providing you have primed. However the fibers will leave a slightly rough finish where you finish to a feather. There is another product called "skim coat" that can be used to eliminate this. Al depends on what your installing on top on if this is required.
Smoothing compounds are not like normal sand and cement, they are modified and more like plaster (very fine)
Hope that helps.
PS, have a look at the Mapie products also.
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