Carpets, Lino & Flooring

Wooden flooring with big slope

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.01 PM

I live in an old early-Victorian house, in a first floor flat. The living room floor is currently carpeted. The kitchen (which is open-plan at right-angles to one half of the living room) currently has lovely sanded, stained and sealed floorboard, and I would like to do the living room the same. However, the living room floor, although level with the kitchen floor where the two rooms are connected, slopes upwards. It's a biggish room, 20' long, but the difference from one end to the other is 10cm - so quite a slope! I've read about how you can put graduated-sized 'batons' on top of the joists to make the floor level with the highest point, but I need to make it level with the LOWEST point, otherwise I then have an uneven step down into the kitchen part. Or I would have to build up the kitchen floor as well, which means all the units and worktops are wrong and also I would have to continue on into the hallway, and then the bottom step of the stairs would be a different height to all the other steps! Is there any way I can do something with the joists, or any solution at all, or am I stuck with the carpet? Any advice anyone can give would be much appreciated!