On Monday, April 29, 2013 11:55:05 AM UTC-4, wrote:

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Adding: suppose the problem were that the slope was completely gradual, from one end of the kitchen to one end of the dining area. My intuition would say that that would be very difficult to fix, indeed. What would you do, put down wood, and then plane it until it were level? But of course a 3/4 " drop over 15" wouldn't be a big deal.

But a transition, it's _possible_ that it would be easy to fix or considerably ameliorate. _Maybe_ one could just put sheeting down in the lower portion, and then in the transition be a bit more careful and use extra pieces to even things out.

Maybe not. But again, they just did the work and didn't think it was a big deal.