A friend of my dad’s had his company come out and pour a new slab for our basement floor, but they screwed up.
We are finishing the main room of the basement, there’s a backroom with laundry that’s in pretty bad shape. To pour the new slab in the main room the floor needed to be a bit higher than the floor in the back room/laundry room. When we talked about it I told them I didn’t mind if there was a step into the other room, I wanted the new slab to be flat to put down hard floor.
They didn’t do that, and instead created a slight ramp in the doorway from the new slab to the back room. Now I can’t put down hard floor without leveling the floor. Because it was done as a favor, I don’t really have the leverage to complain and make them come back out, and unfortunately when I talked to the owner about it he completely BSed me and told me to “throw down carpet, and get the hell out of there.”
My question is, can I put down self leveling concrete? Or does it need busted up in that area and repoured? Is there anything else I should know to get it ready for either LVT or tile flooring?