Carpets, Lino & Flooring

Freshly installed engineered floor (with a little area that hasn't settled well). filling required

Anonymous user 03/03/2024 - 3.14 PM

I live in a Victorian terrace house with suspended flooring on top of which I installed new engineered floor that I finished roughly a month ago. This ground floor living & dining room is an open space that had all partitions removed prior to our time. I used floating method with fibreboard underlay and I must say, that although I was worried about bending of some of the planks, most of floor settled well apart from one corner (by the entrance door) that drives me nuts. It's just the feel that you are not walking on something rigid is the issue. As I previously mentioned, the previous owners removed all partitions and as the floor levels in those former rooms were not entirely consistent, some effort was made to correct it (shaving some of the floor boards etc.) but whoever had done this job they didn't accomplish the levelling on 100% and there are differences. So the area in question is where there is a 20 mm step and it's just as you walk in the house (where was the partition dividing the corridor and front reception room). This area is only about 25-50 mm long, the rest of the boards are shaved so gradually it's becoming plane. However this little area is causing that ''empty space feel'' below your foot as you walk in. I tried filling it with pieces of mdf , hardboard , even newspapers :) . but I certainly don't have the experience with details like this (it's my 4th floor in my life). Whoever can help me, guide me what to do I'd be very grateful to him/her (hints, videos, articles, literature etc.) is all welcome. thank you very much Best Regards Michael