Designing Kitchens and Bathrooms - Help With Kitchen Subfloor

I will be removing old parquet floor from my kitchen and dinning area to put down laminate. There is a 3/4" height difference from the dinning area to the kitchen and I would like to remove the additional subfloor to make it all even.

Is there a method so I don't damage the oroginal subfloor? Thank you,

You didn't say which floor was higher. Might help.

The Kitchen has a subfloor that is 3/4" higher. I guess most kitchens and bathrooms have an additional subfloor. I don't want to add an additional subfloor to the rest of the house to bring it all even. Thank you,

I guess most kitchens and bathrooms have an additional subfloor.


Not generally, unless it needed reinforcing or a better surface because of the material being used. Sounds like whoever did the kitchen last put an additional layer down before laying the parquet. Likely going to have to simply attack it (An A-6 guy knows all about "attack", right?) and hope for the best. I think Larry was hoping you were going to say the kitchen was lower, in which case you could have just built it up to the other level.

Is the dining room of the same flooring, i.e. likely laid same time as kitchen? That would be a little odd to have someone who did those two floors at the same time like that.

Belive me, if I could drop a small bomb on it and get my wife off my back I would. She hates the difference in height, as for me I could care less. I can easily replace the floor with laminate or tiles in the kitchen and use a transition piece. The house was build in 1994, so I am gussing they had carpet throughout the house and build up the kitchen for vinyl when it was build. Once they remove the carpet and put down the parquet, it caused the height difference. I am afraid that the counters might be sitting on top of the subfloor, that would suck.