Leveling A Wood Subfloor For Hardwood

This article provides detailed instructions for leveling a subfloor based on our project.

Leveling a wood subfloor for hardwood. If you take the time. Leveling floors can be a diy project or left to professionals. Wood floors may be installed over subfloors that are out of level such as a ramp but should still fall within floor flatness tolerances. How to level a wood floor sub floor.

A floating floor laminate or locking hardwood shouldn t be installed over a wood subfloor that s adhered to a concrete slab. Hardwood floor installers often use the term level when referring to subfloors when actually they are meaning the term flat. When nailing down a wood floor the subfloor should be flat to within 1 4 in 10 or 3 16 in 6. Inspect the moisture level check the moisture level of the subflooring using a moisture meter.

Level floors are critical for reducing gaps between the flooring material and substrate and preventing sagging and other structural complications. Uneven osb subfloor the subfloor beneath. 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. A level subfloor will help your flooring last longer and keep the finish attractive.

This article is part of our series on how to install hardwood floors. A subfloor is meant to be flat and level. If not your floor covering which is the solid hardwood laminate tile or other exposed flooring that goes on top of the subfloor will never be flat and level this problem can be fixed but it all depends on exactly what kind of uneven subfloor you have. A new hardwood or laminate floor needs a level subfloor to prevent problems such as cracking and splitting from occurring in the future.