Liquid Leveler

[Ifmendez]

New home buyer doing some improvements. My friend is installing tiles and I have a three foot square section on each side of my island counter and stove that the floor settles a quarter inch on each side of a 9" floor beam. someone suggested we use liquid leveler. we mixed a batch but my friend apparently poured the stuff right over the top high point of the hump on the floor and he let the liguid settle on its own. it harden up quick but when we went to measure it again, we are now at a full inch high on each side. Now this stuff is so hard we cant chip away at it with a chisel or bang it into pieces with a little sledge hammer. 1. How can we remove this stuff or correct the leveling or at least make it straight enough to put tiles down again. thank you, 1st timer do it yourselfer.

[Fischer]

If this is a cementous product it has little expansive strength, and lots of compressive. Get a 6' Johnson bar and ram it underneath between the old layer and new and pry up. Should pop up much easier than trying to beat it down. If no access to the Johnson bar go for a wrecking bar and use a 2x as a lever.

[Ifmendez]

Thank you Mr. Fischer, your first name wouldnt be Bill? My best friend is called Bill Fischer. Anyway, I poured it on would and I will try the equipemt your mentioned tomorrow, I just hope I dont tear up the floor in the process. Do yo think I should make more leveler and continue the leveling outward to try and make it straight enough?

[Fischer]

I'd remove what you have and start over. Make sure you have a mixture thin enough so that it will flow, and depending on what type you have you might put a couple of pieces of wood that are the right thickness on the floor to see if it's leveling correctly. You can use a piece of 2 x 4 to encourage it to go to the right spots. Jiggling it while leveling helps too.

Name isn't Bill, and thankfully I'm at that stage in life where I don't get many.