How To Use Roofing Felt To Level Subfloor For Laminate

In order to properly install hardwood floors the plywood subflooring must be even or level.

How to use roofing felt to level subfloor for laminate.

This article is part of our series on how to install hardwood floors. Installing building paper is a simple task. I d prefer peel and stick tiles probably about 50 cents each you can stack a couple of layers if one layer isn t thick enough and taper them so that your. If you re going to use hardwood or a laminate floor and you don t have major issues with the floor i suppose you could use the shingles but i think a shingle would be a pretty thick shim.

Sanding the subfloor can remove minor swells or high spots in the wood but any low spots in the floor must be filled in order to level the plywood. You can buy laminate underlayment but if you have a bunch of old roofing felt it works just as well. Check how level your floor is as you work to make sure you re not creating new dips and high points. If the level of your floor is still slightly off after you ve applied the plywood you can use a layer of roofing felt to even out the floor before you install your flooring.

4 spread self leveling underlayment as an. Felt paper comes in 15 pound and 30 pound options. Floating floors can be installed over any existing hard floor surface but should have an underlayment between the laminate flooring and the subfloor. Uneven osb subfloor the subfloor beneath.

The house shifted and there is one floor joist that is a bit higher than the others. Hardwood floors add style and a distinct look to a room. The floor trim around the edges holds it all down. Staple each shingle to the subfloor with a staple gun and layer the shingles to bring the level of the floor up to the bottom edge of the straightedge.

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.