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Levelling sloped floor with underlay.
Anonymous user 23 February 2024 - 3.46 PM
We have a 1930s house with sloped floors due to historical settling of house on clay soil (this has been checked). I will be installing a laminate floor in our living room but the slope causes a difference of 45mm from one end of the room to the other. It can not be levelled with screed as it is raised floorboards (in good condition) on pillars. Is it possible to level using additional underlay or is there a more advisable route?
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I would not advise using underlay to 45mm.
I would prep the floor boards be sure they are fully fixed and gaps and crack filled. You can then use a screed specifically designed to go over floor boards and I’m pretty sure it can go upto 80mm. Hope this helps
With out seeing the floor. I would take up floorboards and try to leave the floor with batton to make a nice leave floor hope this helps thanks Mick
Answered12 April 2022
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not really is needs a solid ground floor with underlay what will happen is out time it will wear away because of the movement in the floor u can level the floor out with latex flood the area where its out by 45mm and let it find its level then work your way back from the area
hope this helps you many thanks
STEVE KEVEREN FLOORING
There are two options both of which are quite labour intensive..the first is to have some fir rings cut which is a timber that from end to end starts at say 45mm and ends up at nothing..This is fixed over the existing floor and then ply fixed over them..the downside is that it raises the floor level in the room..the alternative and much more labour intensive is to take up the floorboards, put the firring strips over the joists and replace the floor boards over so levelling the floor that way without increasing the floor height generally..