What can we put in this floor?

[Caitlin991]

Recently moved & about to start renovating,
thought we’d won the jackpot as there is beautiful parquet flooring under the carpet in the lounge, however I’ve lifted the carpet at the other end of the room (to be converted to kitchen) and the parquet’s been ripped up and they’ve put concrete with a wooden border?!

what can we do with this? I wanted LVT but been told it’s probably not possible.

Tiles in the kitchen and parquet in the lounge? Why not LVT?

We had LVT over similar….just don’t diy….get in the experts to lay…much prep was needed …..floors screed ( think that’s the word) ….levelled….and another preparation …..these took 2 days before the actual laying of LVT even started…. 8 years later looks good as new

How much of the parquet is missing?

You need to remove the whole carpet and see what you are actually dealing with I think.

@sbplanet as someone else has mentioned, it requires a lot of prep before you can LVT, would need to remove all the wood, concrete it in then fill with concrete, DPM & screed over the top etc.
which we could do, we were just hoping to keep the price down.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles looks like all
of it from the soon to be kitchen area 😩, it’s a shame as what they’ve left down looks lovely!

We had much the same problem ended up using large wood effect floor tiles (had a professional fit them) he just used a thicker layer of adhesive where there was any hight difference.

Oh dear, that's a pity.
When we bought a house the seller said that under the carpet in the hall there was parquet flooring (it was in the sales details too). When we got round to taking the carpet up it was actually red quarry tiles! I suspect the seller thought that what they were called. We ended up have an 'engineered wood' floor laid over the top.

What wood? The strips around the edges are carpet gripper rods, they're just tacked in. Why a DPM, there will be one when they put the new concrete floor in? A self-levelling screed for the LVT shouldn't be too much effort?
I'd find a flooring for the kitchen that matched the parquet and keep that.

Just enlarged your photo, have they inlaid strips of wood underneath the gripper rods? I still don't see why you can't just put levelling compound over the top?