Hi, I have covered a concrete floor with an unused floor drain with laminate flooring (foam mat underneath) and of course, the floor is not even. I have tried various materials as underlay to even out the floor, but it is really difficult to get it completely even.
How do you solve this problem?
Now that I'm going to install the baseboards, I notice the unevenness + when walking over the floor drain, the floor still bends.
How do you fix this properly? Without cement or other liquid solutions. The drain should remain untouched.
The slope towards the drain is about 70cm in diameter in all directions, which makes it really difficult.
So tape over the well properly, then just pour sand and flatten until it is compressed, and on top of that the floor mat and then the laminate flooring? Won't the sand be pushed aside and unevenness still occur?
So tape over the well properly then just pour sand and flatten it until it's compressed and on top of that the floor mat then the laminate floor? Won't the sand be pressed aside and unevenness occur anyway?
As long as the sand has nowhere to go, it will stay in place. My entire previous floor was leveled on sand, it was very firm and nice to walk on.
Reinforcement is completely unnecessary, but just sand as suggested is definitely the simplest - especially since the original poster doesn't want to remove the well. The sand doesn't shift.
However, I would be a bit worried about odor, when the tape ages a few years and might start to peel.
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