Some help needed with engineered flooring
Discussion
I'm about to do my floors downstairs and have a few worries i am unable to answer. Very confident about laying, cutting etc.
Floor is 14mm 3 strip with 3mm top layer.
Should i do a floor screed over my existing concrete floor, it is not perfect, there are occasional dips and humps maybe upto 4mm.
Problem with a floor screed is that if the highest point is 4mm above then if i wanted a 3mm screed i would end up with a 7mm total depth! Over 70m2 thats not funny!
Or should i simply use some feather edge floor screed and gently take out the humps, making them not quite so abrupt (not that they are even visible to the eye). (when i say floor screed i mean the latex self leveling).
What underlay, some of the crappy looking fibreboard claims it will insulate,deaden, and take out imperfections upto 4mm, i would obviously need to put a dpm under though.
Door bars- why do i need them? floor is matching throughout, there will be a gap around the whole floor of 12mm, i really don't want door bars.
Floor is 14mm 3 strip with 3mm top layer.
Should i do a floor screed over my existing concrete floor, it is not perfect, there are occasional dips and humps maybe upto 4mm.
Problem with a floor screed is that if the highest point is 4mm above then if i wanted a 3mm screed i would end up with a 7mm total depth! Over 70m2 thats not funny!
Or should i simply use some feather edge floor screed and gently take out the humps, making them not quite so abrupt (not that they are even visible to the eye). (when i say floor screed i mean the latex self leveling).
What underlay, some of the crappy looking fibreboard claims it will insulate,deaden, and take out imperfections upto 4mm, i would obviously need to put a dpm under though.
Door bars- why do i need them? floor is matching throughout, there will be a gap around the whole floor of 12mm, i really don't want door bars.
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