Basement now waterproofed, need help making it look great again.

[Paul Winka]

I just recently had my finished basement waterproofed and need help figuring out what my options are for making it look pretty again. The floor had ceramic tile and a vinyl baseboard. The tiles adjacent to the wall and the baseboard have been removed, the drain tile put in, concreted over, and this has left a depressed section 18”wide that has a drop off of ¼” from the existing tile.

For a quick, low-cost solution, I was thinking of putting floor leveler in, then painting it a similar color to the tile that’s there, then putting the baseboard.

Or as an alternative, just letting a professional handle leveling the floor and putting LVP down. A little bit more about this ceramic tile is that the height of the tiles one next to the other is not even, this can be felt by standing on the grout lines, all this to say that it might make sense to remove the ceramic tile, level it, or both remove and level it before laying the LVP.

First plan would probably cost no more than $300. I’d hire out for the second option. Probably more than $6000 for my 1000 square foot basement.

What would you do?