Currently undergoing a kitchen reno and attacking the floors. The kitchen area was originally a kitchenette and a separate laundry. The previous owner removed the wall between them. The kitchenette side has timber floorboards on brick piers and the other laundry side has a raised slab with corrugated iron formwork (6 inch thick) . The laundry was given a sand/cement crust to level it with the floorboards and this is cracking and needs to be removed.

Adjacent to the kitchen is the dinning room which is also timber floorboards at the same level at the kitchenette side. So from the dinning room to the kitchen sink, I go from a floorboards substrate, past cement slab and then to timber floorboards again.

I plan on tiling the kitchen so it would be good if the floor was lower. Should I just pull everythings out and start again? What can I do?


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