Knock through

Hi people,

Bit of a loss here. Just got a knock through done in the kitchen ajoining sitting-room. The gap is 64" but the problem i'm having is the flooring. Because it was a load bearing wall, the floor boards no longer join up! Am i to take up the existing ones and replace down from joist to joists or is there an easier way???

Thanks

You might be able to do an in-fill depending on the direction of the existing timber floorboards and your chosen aesthetic. It would definitely be adviseable to tie the two seperate floors together at bearer or joist (depends on which ones will run into each other) before you fix in the floorboards. Just how much of the existing floorboards you have to tear up to do this is moot....whatever makes the job easier to my mind.

Could you make a feature out of it? Say infill with a feature tile that is picked up somewhere else in the kitchen or complements the colour schemes.