floor has lumps and cracks - what to do?

techmob

Hi

we have removed the carpet out of the front room and there seems to be numberous sections that have cracks and lumps and bubbled bits

i have took a photo.

do i just chisel the raised sections and then fill with cement?

not sure if it has damp course etc?

as it will end up ruining the carpets etc

thanks
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tanith

You need to resize your picture..

ormus

i would fill the cracks/holes with some cement, and then probably cover the whole floor in hardboard/MDF/plywood.
depends on the final floor covering.

techmob

the final floor covering will be thick underlay and carpet.

so i can just hack the bumpy parts away, fill the cracks and gaps with cement?

tony6403

I would not try to patch or overboard that floor.
It seems that removal would be the best option. By the looks of it, it won't take much effort to break it out.
You can then make sure that you will have no damp problems by laying visqueen or similar and put down a new floor screed.

Barneysmom

tanith wrote: »

You need to resize your picture..

Those pictures, you click on them and they open up for you.

techmob

tony6403 wrote: »

I would not try to patch or overboard that floor.
It seems that removal would be the best option. By the looks of it, it won't take much effort to break it out.
You can then make sure that you will have no damp problems by laying visqueen or similar and put down a new floor screed.

do you know if that floor has damp course in it, or would that be below it?

not sure i want to go to the extent of completely removing and relaying a new one.

just wanted to know if it was possible to remove any lumps and fill smoothly with cement. would this affect any damp course etc?

PasturesNew

Barneysmom wrote: »

Those pictures, you click on them and they open up for you.

To the size of a postage stamp, yes.

Looks like 1" of brown belly button fluff on my monitor

PasturesNew

Worked it out. Remove the .th from the middle of the image url, e.g.: http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/395/img0147zd.jpg

Louby-Lou_2

use self leveling compound or screed we had this and the carpet fitter used this in our kitchen.

tanith

Barneysmom wrote: »

Those pictures, you click on them and they open up for you.

Barneysmom the picture was so huge it was unable to load properly when it was first posted... the OP has resized them after I posted...;)