Which flooring for uneven floors?

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Folks, i am planning on renovating a 6 plex (all 2 bed units) and i see floors are little uneven. Which flooring would you recommend for bedrooms, kitchen and washrooms and hallways?

Much appreciated

Steve Morris · Answer

By uneven do you mean globs of adhesive and nails sticking up?  Sorry, you need to do those one by one.

If you mean level but with dips/bumps, you can get the floor leveler cement.  Make it as thin as you can since it sets up quickly and you want to spread it all at once.  This is barring something like a rotted out support beam underneath which you can jack up to replace.

If you're as good as you can get, I've found linoleum plank is pretty conformal and will take a beating.

Chris Cogan · Answer

Tile is more tenant proof so if it’s not much more to do tile I would but vinyl plank is ok too because it’s waterproof.

Hamad Khan · Answer

Thanks folks. You all are amazing.

For kitchen would you guys recommend tile or vinyl planks or something else?

Chris Cogan · Answer

@Hammad Arif I would highly recommend the use of self leveling cement with vinyl plank on top. I just did this with an old house with uneven floors and it worked great.

Corey Mansfield · Answer

I would use some thin set concrete to smooth out the floor and then use some vinyl snap together flooring. The thin set will help with any jagged bumps on the sub floor  the vinyl flooring will roll with the floor I would not use any glue down flooring

David P. · Answer

A very thick padding of underlayment will help too with the uneveness.

Steve Morris · Answer

With uneven, i meant subfloor being not level probably because of age of the hous

Diff issue.  Floors can be level, but with time uneven which is easier.  If floors aren't level, you may need to jack up part of the house.  How about a contractor that knows stuff?

On house-jacking, be careful, I had one guy quote $15K and one guy quote $115K on the same house.  Cheap guy want to fix the immediate issue and other guy wanted perfection (which in an old place is almost impossible).

Jaron Walling · Answer

@Hammad Arif In your situation you'll probably end up with an luxury vinyl plank product. You can't have nail heads protruding up but you can get away with uneven sub-flooring (to an extent). Floor leveling thin-set is the cheapest way to fix that issue. If the sub-flooring cannot be fixed with simple repairs get ready to spend some $$$.

Hamad Khan · Answer

With uneven, i meant subfloor being not level probably because of age of the house.

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