How To Fit Lumber In An Uneven Floor

This unique aspect of a floating floor makes it a perfect flooring application for uneven surfaces.

How to fit lumber in an uneven floor.

Shimming involves making gap fillers usually wedge shaped pieces of wood to fit into places where the flooring slopes downward causing the unevenness. To fit boards or moldings to corners that are out of plumb first hold the workpiece plumb with a level. On the top side of the floor another fix it idea to lay down new hardwood over the existing floor. The floor can have an unlevel subfloor and still have a base for a nice laminate floor.

Fitting a plywood subfloor is arguably the best way to ensure your laminate flooring or virtually any other flooring you wish to lay is fitted to the very highest standard. Because of this you may need to plan head and assume that your floor will need to be replaced fairly frequently. A little cheat to help work past a small dip in your subfloor when installing laminate flooring. Installing hardwood on uneven floors.

Hi i want to lay vinyl flooring in two downstairs rooms one with an uneven wood floor and one a slate slab floor. A plywood subfloor will bridge any minor waves in the existing floor and leveling compound would help too. It is not possible in the short term to take up the floors and relay them so i need an underlay that could absorb some on the unevenness and stop the vinyl splitting across uneven areas. You will have to make sure your joists can handle the addition of considerably more weight from the plywood subfloor and any floor coverings.

The main issue with plywood is the time it takes to acclimatize and the extra time required to fit the plywood correctly. In order to properly install hardwood on uneven flooring the floor itself has to be smoothed out. It s a bit confusing but a flat floor can still be slightly out of level and still create a good foundation for a long lasting floor installation. You can grind down bumpy old masonry or concrete flooring with a powered grinding tool.

Laminate flooring on an uneven subfloor can cause problems and needs to be addressed. The thicker the flooring is the more likely it actually is to break and become stressed. Use chisels and power sanders to take off higher parts on wooden floor bases. Because a floating floor installation isn t fastened firmly to the subfloor it doesn t show the imperfections of the underlayment.

Set the compass for the widest gap and scribe the line.