Kitchen concrete floor badly damaged

[Eminybob]

We have had our ceramic tiles taken up, and they seem to have ripped up a layer of concrete along with it.
Therefore the floor is extremely uneven, bumpy and a good half an inch lower than the original floor.

The flooring guys are coming on Tuesday to have a look, the plan was originally to screed and lay LVT but I’m worried now that the surface is so bad that screeding isn’t going to be enough.

What’s the best and worse case scenario in this?

The kitchen is due to be installed next week and although the kitchen designer/PM is adamant he can install on the current floor and then screeding and flooring happens afterward, but he hasn’t actually seen how bad it is yet? Although the fitter has as he was the one who took up the old tile.

I’m gettting myself into a bit of state worrying about it, I know that the floor guy will be able to tell me on Tuesday but any advice on the mean time would be useful.

I am very much in favour of fitting the floor before the units. It will be very much easier to shift them if you ever want to, and no unsightly hole if you take out a unit for example to replace it with an appliance or to change the layout.

Imagine trying to roll a cooker out of a dip and up onto the finished floor, across a cratered and uneven patch of dusty concrete, and up a lip.

The designer won't be living there for the next twenty years, and might be focussing on an easy life for the next two weeks.

Thanks for replying Piglet. I think that would be my preference too but both kitchen and floor guys think otherwise.
Plus floor fitter can’t start until mid April whereas kitchen going in next week.

What about the bumpy floor, you think screeding can save it?

yes

Screeding can definitely fix that. The floor needs screeded before new kitchen goes in ; partly because the flooring people will want access to damp test etc. Not sure why you would lay LVT to the skirts under units but maybe I have misunderstood pigletjohn

That’s good to know that the floor is fixable. It’s just such a mess.

I’m no expert but the logical thing to me would be screed, then install kitchen, then lay LVT.

But the screeding is being done by the floor fitter who can’t get in until mid April. I’m annoyed really, I am paying the kitchen guy to PM all this and so far I have been the one thinking about these things.

We are having a freestanding range which the units are being levelled to, I thought it would be best to install that on top of a screedef surface??

Me too. I am having floor ripped up, units out, floor screeded, units in, LVT laid. I wont lay the LVT under the units though

If you have any freestanding appliances then I would lay LVT under them - it just means they are easier to slide out should you need to and if you replace them, there won't be any gaps showing the subfloor if the shape of the new appliance isn't identical to the old one.