l.e.w.kang
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Hello All,
I am contemplating laying LVT over my existing engineered HW flooring (glued down), and know that it's definitely doable. However, this house has a pretty sizable dip/deflection where the kitchen flows into the living room. If you look at the pics attached (sorry about the dog hair
), it's about a 5 ft. span, and just about 5/8 inch at the deepest point. We had a foundation company install intellijacks beneath in the crawl space, and have tried to iron it out from the bottom up unsuccessfully so far (they say it can take up to 3 years and multiple adjustments etc., and still potentially wouldn't be perfect), but at least the joist is now supported. With that said, how would you go about dealing with this dip? Is the answer to put some self leveler there before laying the LVP? Or would it be ok to lay the LVP right over it etc, and it would conform? Keep in mind that when I install the new floor, it will be laid over the current direction of the engineered HW in a perpendicular fashion.
Any advice or suggestions? I certainly don't want to have to wait for these jacks to continuously be adjusted as these floors need to go! Thanks!
I am contemplating laying LVT over my existing engineered HW flooring (glued down), and know that it's definitely doable. However, this house has a pretty sizable dip/deflection where the kitchen flows into the living room. If you look at the pics attached (sorry about the dog hair
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Any advice or suggestions? I certainly don't want to have to wait for these jacks to continuously be adjusted as these floors need to go! Thanks!
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