![]() Often, it’s so typical that it goes completely unnoticed. He lives and works in Rapid City, South Dakota.It’s not uncommon for flooring to have a little squeak to it. Matt Jackson is a master carpenter, remodeler, SketchUp Wiz, YouTuber, and contributing editor to ProTradeCraft. This method can be adapted for a wide range of applications it is excellent for removing hardwood flooring, for example. In fact, with a 'careful touch' using very long tapered wedges, it is the best approach for removing hardwood flooring for salvage, preservation and re-use because tongue and groove edges are preserved with the forceful-yet gradual-lifting generated by the wedges. I do have a pang of remorse for the poor fella who will end up tearing out this tile 20-25 years hence when interior designers create a resurgence of paisley-patterned linoleum for residential bathrooms. ![]() On one butt-joint in the subfloor, the staples were neatly driven right into the crack between the sheets! So after all the drama of separating the subfloor from the underlayment I ended up cutting the subfloor out of the whole room and installing a new layer of 3/4" plywood complete with polyurethane construction adhesive and 1-3/4 inch torx-drive screws.Īs it turned out if I'd just popped up the tile by the time I got done cutting holes for relocating the plumbing the floor would have looked like a plywood quilt and I would have gone through all the same steps anyway-which, considering how tough the job turned out to be, is good to know that the time, effort, and expense was not wasted. What doesn't show up is that the subfloor was attached with just five 1/2" crown staples in each joist (!). Some joists had only a hinky dab of 35 year-old construction adhesive and NO fasteners. Ironically, on this job the underlayment was attached to the subfloor WAY better than the subfloor was attached to the floor joists. And as you can see at the end of the video the subfloor was seriously compromised when the underlayment peeled up two and three layers top layers of veneer. Rinse, lather, repeat all steps (including carbo-loading) until the score is You: 1, Subfloor 0. ![]() ![]()
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