What Trade to Level Floor?

[imroberts]

I'm in the midst of removing a downstairs bathroom prior to fitting a new one.

The bathroom has always had a slight step up from the next room and having started taking up the floor tiles I have found remains of a previous layer of floor tiles underneath, some remains of a previous vinyl floor, one area which looks to have been self levelled previously (though this has clearly not adhered and is coming up quite easily in huge chunks, and all sorts of different adhesives.

In other words a mess, and nothing is coming up without leaving more of a mess.

My intention is to work my way down to the original concrete floor, however I'm in no doubt that I will be left with a mess and the floor will need levelling before I can lay a new flooring. I'm looking at an LVT or SPC flooring and I'm aware I need the surface almost perfect for this.

I don't fancy trying to level the floor myself as I've read mixed views on how easy self levelling compound is to use, and would rather just pay someone who knows what they're doing. The question is who should I get in to do this? I would rather get someone in before I continue ripping up what's there in case they would prefer to do the preparation themselves or want me to to do things in a particular way.

 

[CountryFan]

Floorlayer or someone competent to use it, eg maybe a tiler.

 

[ree]

OP,
At present do you have the usual fixtures, eg. bath, wc , basin, etc. in the ground floor bathroom?
To remove all the layers down to the concrete the bathroom should be stripped clear of all fixtures.
Pics of the bathroom floor, & a pic showing the step-up from outside the bathroom would help.

 

[crazydaze]

Floor layer is the correct trade, sounds like you'll want to strip back as suggested, Liquid DPM to subfloor and screed on that.

Personally I would avoid LVP, Glue Down LVT is much the superior product and you'll need to prep to the same specification whichever product you choose.