Broke out my dad's old laser survey level. Mapped out the bulk of 1st floor. The values are how many fractions of inch the floor is below level. so 25 = 0.25", 5=0.5", ...
The kitchen is the room in upper area. You can see how main house slopes DOWN toward bottom of page and kitchen area...
plywood in kitchen just temporary for now. Arrows in first picture attempt to depict to different slopes. Agree with post about leveling first, just struggling with how to do it! The kitchen is ~0.5" lower than main room. and slopes away at about .5"/8ft. differing slopes presents issue at...
So in the midst of all the demo. Ripped out all of the tile and cement board from kitchen. Ripped out half of the carpet and pad. Running into three problems ... 1) the kitchen floor (an old addition on the house) slopes slightly downward toward outside wall. 2) the main room has a slight...
Slowly getting around to starting this project. I pulled up carpet in the most troubled area of flooring (had lots of squeaks). Found that previous installer used a bunch of floor leveler in the region to try to level it ... and it was quite busted up and turned to dust. As you can see there...
Back with more questions. Things got sidelined because getting some HVAC stuff taken care of before doing the floors. I think I could tackle the project in two waves, by moving major furniture from one side of house to other as we do floors.
So I have gotten a couple of quotes to see what it...
About to start flooring overhaul of the 1st floor of my 100+ yr old house. The house has gone through a couple of remodels over past few decades prior to my purchase that opened up the floor plan. The subfloor is the 5/8 1x4 pine boards shown in the attached picture. Bulk of the ~1100sq ft floor...