Raising A Sunken Living Room With Wood Or Concrete

An added incentive for changing the home s footprint came when the homeowner s mother who is older tripped while stepping down into the sunken area.

Raising a sunken living room with wood or concrete. Over the last few weeks we ve been working hard to get our sunken den. Cost is not an issue because i want it do correctly the 1st time. We intend to have hard wood flooring installed over it and the other rooms around it.

In this episode of extreme house flipping their gopro camera captures them raising a sunken living room in time lapse along with raising a sunken den by. I ve been so excited to talk to you guys about our modern kitchen and dining room makeover plans. Brothers dave and rich renovate houses.

Remove the material over the adjacent subfloor so that at least 6 inches of the subfloor is exposed around the perimeter of the room. I am looking to raise a sunken family room. Before i could begin this renovation we had to tackle the sunken living room.

Wood worries are cracked tiles g. As part of a larger remodel traver is tearing down walls and raising the living room floor by 5 inches to create a large space that s level with the entryway. We have a ranch type house that has a sunken living room that we would like to raise to the level of our other floors.

Use a pry bar hammer screwdriver and pliers to remove baseboards tack strips and any fasteners left over in the living room subfloor. In the next six weeks i m going to be making over our kitchen and dining room. Today i m talking all about how we raised our sunken living room.

I live in san diego and just bought a 30yr old house on slab foundation. Ceiling height is not a problem.