How To Level Your Floor

The level shouldn t be off by more than 3 16 inch 0 48 cm any minor deviations you happen to discover shouldn t impact the stability of the finished floor.

How to level your floor.

Plan to correct gaps of more than 1 8 to 3 16 inch. If your floor is concrete use a concrete grinder for large open areas or a 4 inch or 8 inch angle grinder with a cup wheel attachment made for use on concrete. Use a concrete grinder to grind down any particularly high spots. You will have to make sure your joists can handle the addition of considerably more weight from the plywood subfloor and any floor coverings.

Lay a 4 to 6 foot beam level on your floor. Check the level again. Lay the level flat on the floor and look at the bubble in the middle to see if the floor is level in each section. Wear eye protection and a face mask start the grinder s engine lay the disc flat against the spot you want to grind down and move it in a side to side or.

Mark the high and low spots on the subfloor. Check the bubble in the horizontal tube in the level to ensure it floats between the two vertical lines. Place your level in several different spots as you did before to get a more accurate reading of the floor s overall slope. Raise the lower end of the level until the bubble is centered then measure the distance from the bottom of the level to the floor to find the depth of the dip.

Lay a long level downhill on the floor with one end of the level on the level part of the floor and the other end at the lowest point. A plywood subfloor will bridge any minor waves in the existing floor and leveling compound would help too. The process of fixing both an out of level and an out of plane floor is simply known as leveling a floor. When inflexible flooring is installed over a substrate that dips or heaves various things.

On the top side of the floor another fix it idea to lay down new hardwood over the existing floor.