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Sheppz
How can I find out if a concrete floor is substructure/ground-bearing - presume some highly paid someone can use magic scanning tools and tell me?
Our street is built into the side of a hill. The kitchen is at the back of the house towards the top of the hill. The garden is the same height as the first floor and accessed through the back bedroom or a flight of steps in an alley to the right of the kitchen. The kitchen has wooden floor boards for the first half, then just past the fireplace there's a kind of gently sloping, coarse concrete which we're desperate to get rid of. We could presumably lay floor over it but I'd love to have a bit of extra height rather than decrease the height by building on top of it. Currently there is a step into the kitchen from the hallway (which has 5 steps up to the hallway from the porch). I'd love to remove the step and have a flat run through the entire ground floor.
Something like the dotted grey lines below (Not to scale. Walls/steps not as pissed as they look). But equally, I don't want to do this if the house will cave in or it will cost me more than the house is worth to prevent the house from caving in.