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A picture would help. I've read your description 3 times but can't visualise what you're describing.
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The foreground is the hallway. It leads into this step up to the kitchen The grey floorboards form the first part of the kitchen floor. About halfway through the kitchen the boards end and wonky concrete begins with a steep slope up about 1.5 inches. I guess I'd like to raise the step in the foreground by two inches so we can fill up the floorboards to be on the same line as the concrete. Will then install some kind of solid floor a la Karndean. I'd love to get someone in to do the whole job but have had zero quotes or interest in several months of trying.
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If I wanted to raise a step by 2 inches, how would I go about it?
Let's call the hallway sea level, then the kitchen has a step up with a lip on it (a sill?). This sits under the architrave of the doorway, then the wooden floorboards of the kitchen are at that level, then there's 1.5 inches of concrete ramp at the other end.
My non builder mind presumes: I would take off the architrave, then find a thicker piece of wood to replace the sill, or just stick something on top of the current one, cut in to the existing architrave (most likely fit a new one). The aim is to get the doorway to be the same height (or slightly higher) than the concrete at the far end of the kitchen so I can prepare the wooden floorboards/fill in above them to be a constant height across the room in preparation for putting in karndean/similar.