We have a pretty old house with an open living room / dining room, but the sub floor under the dining room is concrete and meets with a wooden floorboard subfloor in the living room. Our contractor laid herringbone laminate through the two rooms just over a year ago and the floor creaked like crazy, you couldn’t shift your weight anywhere in the room without the floor screaming. Eventually the contractor came back and said he would take up the floor and look at levelling the sub floor with a screed and then re-lay the laminate. We essentially emptied the ground floor of the house and he took the floor up, only to reveal the sub floor has a 30mm discrepancy in level and if we were to level it out it would be a) more expensive than expected and b) would result in a step up from the hallway into the levelled out room. Now we need to figure out what to do whilst also living in a house with no floors again. Do we level it out and accept a step from the carpeted hallway into the living/dining room? Do we take the carpet up in the hallway and try to level it all out entirely through hallway and the living/dining room? Or do we accept defeat and get carpet through downstairs? What’s more frustrating is if our contractor would’ve told us at the time of laying the floor that this was the position we wouldn’t have spent a fortune on herringbone floor and would’ve addressed this issue over a year ago. All advice/help appreciated thank you
Your floor was never good enough for a hard floor. You should of been made aware of that or given the options before the work. Think you will have to re carpetbor redo the whole subfloor as you say
