I've knocked through from the kitchen to the dining room of my Victorian ho= use, and am now considering my options with regards to flooring.
The dining room has lovely (suspended) original pine floorboards, while the= kitchen had quarry tiles laid directly to concrete base. I wanted to cont= inue the pine flooring through to the kitchen - which sits approx one and a= half inches below the tops of the dining room joists - using reclaimed flo= orboards on battens fixed into channels in the concrete base, in order to m= ake it level with the dining room.
However, the concrete under the quarry tiles breaks up when a hole is drill= ed, meaning that fixings cannot be used. Although solid, the concrete is m= ade up of large pieces of loosish stone and is about 9" thick from what i c= an tell. The only solution i can think of it to make channels in the base = and concrete battens into place, fixing the floorboard to these. Sound pla= usible? Any other options?
Cheers.