Just had fitted in my lounge some beautiful quick step laminate flooring. used along side durlay excel gold underlay, which is a acoustic underlay. Very pleased with it apart from one small thing... between two of the rooms the floor dips very slightly when it goes from concrete in the extension to the original floorboards in other side of room. Its enough to give a little "bounce" to certain surrounding areas around the dip. its not bad but the dip is noticeable, theres no creaking, and the joints still look tight. no furniture has been laid. do i need to be worried about the dip and slight bounce in areas? will it cause problems later down the line? the floor is straight on both sides of the room, the issues only occurs around the dip where the concrete part meets the normal floorboards.
along the dip the balances vary. in the corner where dip starts it 8mm at its highest point (in which that area measures around 30cm x 30cm), but this is in only in one small section. then the rest of the dip is around 3-4mm max in all areas before floor straightens out again... can i get away with the above? rest of the floor is level, its only where concrete meets floorboards in the small dip
I have this conversation with customers before the floor is fitted. I think your quickstep will be fine but its not how it should be installed. The floor should be flat and that sometimes means levelling a larger area which will cost a lot more. I find you can often lose the bounce in the doorway by fitting a bar.
the floor can still be lifted as the skirting has not been installed. i cant installed bar as the bounce is in the middle of the lounge where the concrete and wooden floor boards meet. the concrete is slightly higher. the fitter is coming back saturday to finish skirting, but should i get him to sort the dip out. im thinking he should have made sure of this before fitting. he did level out most of the concrete with self leveling compound, but didnt pay attention to where the 2 floors meet. is there any fix for this? can the floor start creaking here?
Well if he's charged to levelled the floor and its not level you will have to talk to him about that. I don't think your quickstep will fail or creek but it should be flat. If it was a top locking system like the tile or engineered board you would have problems!
Hi vik...Small world this interweb :lol: Probably best talking to the fitter. Agree with merit. The 5G drop lock system would be a nightmare but after seeing the pics, I think yours will be fine although your fitter won't be happy but that's tough
Merit , looks like he latex the screed area but it seems as if the concrete is higher than the wood, so they would have to ply/ hardboard the old floorboards and then latex if ness? Your right it should be flat, but lots of floor layers don't mind doing screed areas but some don't bother on the floorboards Could be a lot of money to get it correct, but they should have pointed it out before hand as you rightly said.
[/qUOTE=UVcure;96637]Merit , looks like he latex the screed area but it seems as if the concrete is higher than the wood, so they would have to ply/ hardboard the old floorboards and then latex if ness? Your right it should be flat, but lots of floor layers don't mind doing screed areas but some don't bother on the floorboards Could be a lot of money to get it correct, but they should have pointed it out before hand as you rightly said.[/QUOTE] hey wes Yes UV your right,, he self levelled the concrete area (but not all over, just around the edges and sides where it dipped a little). he paid no attention whether it was level with floorboards. i know the correct fix is to install plywood or hardboard over the old floorboards and then level the concrete with this. but its alot of work and involves removing everything laid and even falling out with the fitter. the dip is not bad at all but you can kind of notice it as if you walk over it the floor bounces. if it wasnt for the bounce it be no issue to be honest. do you reckon i could pack the bounce area with some thin piece of cardboard or hardboard so it has support under there....
Really should be plyd then fibre reinforced screed over everything to make floor fit for install, 2mm discrepancy over 1mtr is maximum recommended .
