Floor leveling issue due to old flooring layers
We are remodeling our kitchen, including floors, and relocating a couple base cabinets. The current flooring does not go under the old cabinets, so when we take those up, we will have a gaps that go to a subfloor or particle board and some parts that have layers of flooring on them. These are the current layers of flooring: Tile->Thinset with steel mesh->Linoleum->particle board--subfloor. We are currently demo'ing the tile and thinset/mesh, leaving the linoleum exposed. We discovered asbestos in the backing of the lineoleum (not the mastic--it's in the backing of the linoleum itself). We're trying to avoid doing abatement and were hoping to take up the tile/thinset and just lay new flooring down on top of it. Tile would be easiest, since the thinset will help level the parts of the floor that don't have the linoleum. However, if we decide to do LVP, I was wondering if there was a simple way to level the spaces where the old cabinets used to be to create a level floor for the new cabinets to be installed on. Picture below shows where we will have no linoleum and will need to level it up to the existing linoleum to create a level floor for cabinets. The height between the subfloor and the top of the linoleum appears to be about 1/16", just the height of the linoleum. https://preview.redd.it/gpg7ihebmgre1.jpg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7fd035a7ec2f53e9d68693fca9c28ff371272416 I wondered if we could use some kind of underlayment to even things out? Any other ideas? submitted by /u/doktorcerebus [link] [comments]
| | We are remodeling our kitchen, including floors, and relocating a couple base cabinets. The current flooring does not go under the old cabinets, so when we take those up, we will have a gaps that go to a subfloor or particle board and some parts that have layers of flooring on them. These are the current layers of flooring: Tile->Thinset with steel mesh->Linoleum->particle board--subfloor. We are currently demo'ing the tile and thinset/mesh, leaving the linoleum exposed. We discovered asbestos in the backing of the lineoleum (not the mastic--it's in the backing of the linoleum itself). We're trying to avoid doing abatement and were hoping to take up the tile/thinset and just lay new flooring down on top of it. Tile would be easiest, since the thinset will help level the parts of the floor that don't have the linoleum. However, if we decide to do LVP, I was wondering if there was a simple way to level the spaces where the old cabinets used to be to create a level floor for the new cabinets to be installed on. Picture below shows where we will have no linoleum and will need to level it up to the existing linoleum to create a level floor for cabinets. The height between the subfloor and the top of the linoleum appears to be about 1/16", just the height of the linoleum. I wondered if we could use some kind of underlayment to even things out? Any other ideas? [link] [comments] |
