Laminate flooring eneven floor

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It is possible to remove part of a laminate floor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgXIPaxljh0 .  There is a much better youtube vid I've seen but I can't find it right now.

Norman_Castle

Danny30 said:

 I was thinking planing the joist that the raised floorboards lay on to lower the height or to pane the actual boards but I don't want to risk weakening the floorboards obviously. 

To plane the joist you would need to remove all of the floor boards. To lower the joist you might be able to remove packing from under it or trim the end or what it rests on. None of these are a job for a laminate floor fitter. If the problem is a dip where a wall was removed filling the dip properly is the obvious solution. The problem might be the floors either side of the wall may be at different heights rather than just a dip where the wall was.

Danny30

Norman_Castle said:

Danny30 said:

 I was thinking planing the joist that the raised floorboards lay on to lower the height or to pane the actual boards but I don't want to risk weakening the floorboards obviously. 

To plane the joist you would need to remove all of the floor boards. To lower the joist you might be able to remove packing from under it or trim the end or what it rests on. None of these are a job for a laminate floor fitter. If the problem is a dip where a wall was removed filling the dip properly is the obvious solution. The problem might be the floors either side of the wall may be at different heights rather than just a dip where the wall was.

Sounds like a big job. Not what I was hoping for. I. Might cancel him to be honest. Any idea how long it would take a carpenter to do such a job across 4m wide of floorboards? 

Norman_Castle

Its much easier to raise the lower area with packing on top of the boards. You haven’t said what underlay has been used, layers of foam will still compress when stood on. 

Danny30

Norman_Castle said:

Its much easier to raise the lower area with packing on top of the boards. You haven’t said what underlay has been used, layers of foam will still compress when stood on. 

We used the gold foam underlay. How does packing on top work? 

Norman_Castle

Packing on top? Make the floor(s) level with fibreboard underlay or hardboard of whatever thickness is needed wherever needed. As proven by your floor fitter, multiple layers of foam don't support the floor.