Level floors in old house

This article is part of our series on How to Install Hardwood Floors. While preparing to lay 1100 square feet of hardwood flooring, we discovered significant variation in the OSB subfloor that will serve as the nailing surface for the hardwoods. This article provides detailed instructions for leveling a subfloor based on our project. Project Overview: Uneven OSB Subfloor The subfloor beneath our first floor is 5/8' oriented strand board (OSB) laid over 2 x 10 joists that are spaced 16 inches…

When I started work on the house, I noticed that the floor wasn’t level. I thought I could level them pretty easily by jacking up the floor joists. There is easy access to the joists from the…

I also thought about titling this post, "Honey, You Took Out Our Living Room Floor," but that seemed a little long...and cliche. I suppose I should have started with a groveling apology for being away from the blog for SO long. So, hat in hand, we do apologize. Life has been wild and interesting, to say the least! To explain, about the time of our blog post before this one, we found out we would be adding to our family, and exactly 10 months ago from today, our sweet baby boy arrived. He is…

Before you can install new flooring, your subflooring must be even. If it's not, check out three easy solutions to fix the problem.

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Behind the scenes of episode 2 in my new home renovation video series. In this episoide we reveal all the strucutral work we had to do to our 125 year old Victorian home including installing LVL and steel beams in order to remove load bearing walls. Here you can see how the team at Dynamic Design and Construcution are levelling floors by sistering old joists.

How to Level Uneven Floor Joists in an Old House | Hunker

Leveling a slanted, sloping floor is not easy, but solutions are possible. Learn how to level a floor in an old house.

<p>Get step-by-step instructions to make a subfloor flat for your new floor install.</p>