Thought I would give an update. It was going to be a tremendous amount of work to pull up the original plywood. We decided to put down 1/2" CDX plywood. We did put it off the seams of the underlying plywood. That did take care of the softspots and made the floor feel much firmer. We are now...
Thank you for the reply. We have gutted the kitchen as well so I do not have to worry about additional height. I have some room to work with since the mud floor was so thick. The house is 20 years old and I believe they laid the original plywood knowing that they were putting in a mud floor...
We took out our old ceramic tile floor in the kitchen and hall. It was in 2-3" of mud. Now we are down to the original plywood floor which is not level, soft in spots and high where some panels join each other. What do we do?
Do we use self leveling cement and then put down 1/4 or 1/2...