
Concrete Floor Prep in Vancouver: How Flat Is Flat Enough for Flooring?
Most concrete floors do not derail a flooring job because they are obviously bad. Usually it is the opposite. They are just uneven enough, in just the wrong places, to cause trouble later. The slab looks fine when the room is empty. Then the new floor goes in and you start getting joint stress, hollow spots, telegraphing, or lippage. At BC Floors, we run into this a lot on Vancouver projects. Homeowners usually focus on the finished floor first, which makes sense. But the real decision often starts lower down: is the concrete actually flat enough, dry enough, clean enough,








