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Is there anything I'm missing in terms of flooring?
Have posted here before but finally getting around to starting.
We have a kitchen which appears to have been extended presumably 50-100 years ago. It's a house built into a hill so the first half (older half) is rickety wooden floorboards with a cavity beneath. The second half (closer to the hill) is a gloss painted wonky concrete abomination. I'd like it all to be flat and smooth and easy to clean on the new kitchen. Want to resurface the entire floor including under the ripped out units. Problem being the concrete is 2 or 3 or more inches higher than the wood. The wood ends in a step through a door down to a hallway.
This is not a forever house but I'd like it to be worthwhile for the next few years. So although I don't want to invest too much (in digging out the concrete and resurfacing the whole floor to be a single height from front of house to back, which would be the dream) I want it to be tolerable and not be constantly annoyed by it.
My options as I see them:
Ply/other fill to raise the step into the hallway by a few inches, screed, karndean. (Rough cost of this per square meter assuming I'm too incompetent to do the screed myself?Reader, I am.)
Ply/other fill but not to raise the height of the step, just even out so it's not a sudden drop halfway through the room, then a big single sheet of highest quality vinyl I can find. Rough cost on this?
Other?
I want something VERY easy to clean. We have a four year old and I'm a pig. Ideally not slippy and not going to peel up at any edges/corners. Relatively durable so it's not going to scratch etc.