I'm going to renovate the kitchen soon, full DIY except the furniture. I will rip this parquet out and tile the whole floor. Problem is the parquet is 2cm (~0.8in) tall and the tile + thinset is only 1cm, so I need another 1cm for the floor to be flush with the other rooms. What is a better option? Manually floating with deck mud or pouring self-leveling cement? Do I need reinforcement wire for either?
Have you considered just having the finish floor wind up 1cm lower than the other rooms and having a transition? 1cm isn't a very big drop
You could use a cement backer board or self leveling cement--- you won't need any reinforcing wire with either of these. The backer board would probably be more expensive, but it will also likely be easier to get a more perfect surface.
>cement backer board
Sorry forgot to add, the subfloor is concrete or some slab system since it's a Yugo building built in the 50s, so idk if that is easy to do.
If the self leveling cement is only 1cm thick, won't it crack?
Concrete leveling compound can be applied at very thin layers, even just a few mm thick.
Check into what porducts are available locally.
(keep in mind that a lot of them call for the use of a compatible primer when used over a concrete slab)
>the parquet is 2cm (~0.8in) tall and the tile + thinset is only 1cm, so I need another 1cm for the floor to be flush with the other rooms.
Ma šta te boli kurac za to. My 1976 duplex shithole has literally 10x bigger differences between some rooms and the attic has unremovable tiles from 2013 because the previous owner dumbass CEMENTED them onto the concrete slab.
>Yugo building built in the 50s
If it's 50s it might not even be Yugoslav. Does it have no district heating, a crawl space between the floors and sound insulation so good you could scream at 3 AM and not wake anyone up? Then it's a German war reparation building. Parquet might have been done later then.
Keep in mind that yugos couldn't do parquet for shit, it makes sense to rip it out and replace it with something that's done properly.
>Rip this parquet out
This. Why would you replace a nice massive parquet with tiles. wtf.
IM SORRY MR ROCHEFORT NO PUT THAT VASE DOWN
Right now im thinking Sikafloor 100 or Ceresit CN 69 (Im from Serbia so lots of kraut overengineering available on the market) Ty for the info.
The wood is very old and has absorbed years of water and grease from spillages. Just take a look at this particle board in my cabinet. I bet I could fry an egg on the gutter oil I could squeeze out of it. This is tempting me to just rip everything out so it is fresh and sanitary. And don't worry the tiles will be 24x24
Forgot pic.
Yeah thats particle board, not real wood like the floor. Thats why everyone is making fun of you
>cabinets are all fricked up
>replace the floor
you gotta break free of that soviet mindset
>my shitty particle board cupboard is shit
>better destroy my timeless floor
Honestly OP what the frick is your problem.?
I ALREADY SMASHED THAT PIECE OF SHIT CLEAR CRYSTAL
Because OP is too stupid to refinish and doesn't understand what durock is.
This. That floor is beautiful.
>rip this parquet out
KYS yourself
Maybe he thinks it's ugly.
>"OP you have to keep something you don't like because I like it"
It can be finished into a color he likes and look clean/new. Hes just a lazy homosexual with no taste so he'll prob just throw the cheapest tile he can on top of it all so he can continue to throw his gay gangbangs
He's gonna put some gay 12x12 $1 sq ft beige tile in no doubt.
Just sand it down for Christ's sake
Just stain it a different color
Solves all his issues
Use cork. It's natural and perfect Insulation
Seems like a very good idea, but won't the cork compress over time and make the floor not level?
Cork flooring is compressed already to make it more dense and resilient...it's not usually as dense as linoleum but if you indent it with a thumbnail it pops back to normal.
>rip this parquet out
A travesty.
Idk if the stains, scratches and lippage are even possible to fix anymore. I recall my mom saying the workers said it can't be sanded anymore, or maybe just one more time...
> can’t be sanded
Sounds like BS, thats thick wood.
Don’t sand out the gouges where you were, what? Repairing diesel engines? Just carve out the black parts and fill with clear epoxy (or colour it if you want)
sand enough to change the color of the wood
no, you won't be able to go deep enough for gouges, but who cares; wood filler in them if you care
dark stain will make them invisible
and then polyurethane the shit out of it
enough poly might also self-level your little slope problem?
either way, will last you another generation
You’re going to as much fun as a root canal removing that old floor.
If you’re worried about a centimeter, get a transition.
>get a transition.
best advice yet because its obvious OP is already a complete homosexual. Might as well transition now.
>transition
Holy homosexual. Do NOT rip out the solid wood. Solid wood is NOT the same as particle board your stupid Mutt. Sand the floor and do a matte finish on it.
That kitchen looks like shit
I hate sinks that aren't covered so fricking much.
you are completely wrongg, boomer. Your pic shows a beautiful symmetry of sink and cabinetry.
Are you still coping and seething because your annointed sink and cabinets didn't win the culture war?
Lol. Lmao even.
Isn't that a farmhouse sink? It's not designed to be covered.
These are calles "country style sinks" or "senpai sinks" and if you actually used one you'd see how amazing they are not having to lean forward another two or three inches. They are great.
>Senpai sinks
dude, no just no. As someone who lived in Japan for nearly a decade I can assure you nobody calls those senpai sinks. It doesn't even make sense. Not sure where you got that idea but maybe don't come here and throw out nonsense terms of you aren't familiar with their usage
he misspelled 'farm' as 'f4m' and the wordfilter got him
newbie
Don't listen to these hyperventilating virtue signaling pearl clutchers, wood is a pain in the ass in a kitchen and of all the patterns that can make it a bigger pain in the ass, parquet and herringbone are at the top.
All it takes is one burst pipe of faucet cartridge retainer thread giving out or a leaky icemaker supply line to completely wreck a floor like that in a matter or a few hours when you're out of the house.
No shock that these neets white knighting for a fricking floor can't comprehend being out of the house and coming back to a disaster.
Also no surprise that they can't comprehend that a wooden kitchen floor has *always* been poorgay cope. As are wooden floors made from short bits of wood, unless it's 2" or thicker end grain.
tfw you think that wood floors are high-end because you grew up with houses made from literal garbage like lineoleum, particle board, and plastic carpets
It's called having taste, which is something grey and white flipper shitters like you would never understand. If you seal the floor properly with polyurethane it's effectively water-proof.
If you had good quality appliances and quality plumbing, which you would get if you weren't a landlord, this is literally not a problem.
opiniongays gtfo. That floor is gross and OP will be the judge of it
LVP defense force please go.
>if it gets ruined you'll have to rip it out and it will be a pain in the ass
>so rip it out before it's ruined.
schluter ditra over concrete under new tile will raise the floor.
You will never get that craftsmanship in a nowadays floor.
from parquet to tile is like going from chocolate straight to shit.
None of you can stop what I'm gonna do to this poor wood in a few days from now.
You soviet boomers are hopeless, you will regret it so much in 10-20 years.
Im 24 my guy
I'm not you guy, buddy
im not your buddy pal.
Im not your pal, friend
Good luck, it’s probably stuck down with bitumen and will almost certainly be like pulling up bedrock
asbestos reinforced bitumen.
is that a stainless steel casio? nice, i've got the same one
but don't touch that fricking floor
Thanks. It's an A168WA. Originally I didn't want to mess with the floor but my boyfriend is always giving me shit saying looks old fashioned
Im not gay, AND THE FLOOR IS DED
Is that fricking WALLPAPER? Kakva jebena cigamala, fuj.
Hey now, to je majka stavila kad nam je tu bila rerna, zbog masti
You're so fricking stupid
This is like ripping out an old V8 engine to drop in a new 1.3l 4banger because it has a turbo
moron. Rip that other floor out instead.
DONT YOU DO IT MOTHERFRICKER
>replacing your beautiful wood floor with ugly nu-construction tiling
your house deserves better than you op
Use Schulter dietra on the floor under the tile. It’ll save the subfloor and add enough height for you. You lay it out and press it with thinset to the subfloor then stick the tile to it.
>I will rip this parquet out and tile the whole floor.
I used plywood pray for me
>This old luxury thing displeases me so I'm going to destroy it and replace it with some modern crap.