How to Get Under Your Floor Safely | DIY Subfloor Tutorial
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2021
- Trying to access your subfloor for a DIY renovation? You might need to run electrical, plumbing or make changes to your mechanical system, or you might want to level your floor without using a floor leveler. In this video, we're going to show you how to open and close your subfloor the RIGHT way so you can get the job done with a perfect finish. Let's go!
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My man is out here sacrificing OSB, basically the new gold, just to teach us these things. What a guy.
Cheers Matt, the show must go on!
No kidding! A gram of gold is currently about $57, osb is extremely similar! Shocking!!
He's just trying to flex 💪😂😂
i have 3 sheets of 1/2" CDX boys, im about to retire 😎
@@rroofing5673 😂😂🤣🤣🤣💯
I just want to say thank you. My Dad passed before he could teach me these things 40 years ago. I've learned so much watching you.
I do not understand how you always manage to post a video, on exactly what I've been trying to figure out, at exactly the right time and exactly how I want it done if I don't take it on. 🔨🍺
Thank you!
Same. I've got some squeaks and floor damage to repair and I feel a lot more comfortable now after seeing this
I have wood floors in my home that are slanted and squeak badly in some spots, so I was also surprised this topic came up...
I read the comments and questions and try to make videos to solve popular problems. Cheers!
for me Jeff always posts a week or two after I have done the same job.... sigh :-)
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If you are reusing the piece you cut out, a quick tip is to make some reference marks on it and the floor. It saves time and frustration when trying to reinsert it later.
"If this was a cartoon you would fall thought the floor" lol this is why Jeff Rocks, great mock up and love the bracing info
Cheers, glad you liked this video!
I’ve been replacing water damaged sub floor in my bathroom. That groan when you knelt on the joists really hit home!
At 18:40 -- Why isn't Jeff putting the 2x4s vertical for improved strength?
At 19:00 -- Here's why I'm not putting the 2x4s vertical.
As always, thanks for the great video!
good use for an oscillating tool to finish up those corners also. if you're worried about sending your sawzall too far through the subfloor!
3 inch saw blades
i love my "Wiggle saw", use it tons for various jobs, even great to removing/trimming shims
Thanks Jeff for all your help. I've been in woodworking for 40 years now & I'm still learning new techniques and getting ideas!
I watched a number of videos getting ready to do this work. Yours was the most informative. Thank you!
Awesome video! i can't wait for the rest of the series. Your answering all the questions I needed answers to. I'm ready to conquer my squeaky floor. Thank you! Keep up the great videos!
Cheers Wade!
Thank you for doing this! The cost of lumber is insane and youre out here showing us how to not screw up. Greatly appreciated!
I’m trying to fix impact noise in my condo that I run as an air bnb. The property was constructed in 1986 and I had questions, lol. This channel got me doing more than I thought I could do and spending more at the hardware store. Thanks for all your shared knowledge. You are awesome Jeff. I’m literally checking daily for the rest of the videos. Especially if there’s more for impact noise reduction.
Our subfloor developed a minor sink in two spots at the beginning of the pandemic. I was able to open it up to ensure nothing was wrong structurally (wife's an architectural designer so she did the ensuring) but you don't know how much I needed this series Jeff. You're a life (money) saver.
my parents recently bought a home and I have been watching all your videos and doing so many upgrades to the house! it's amazing thank you so much for all your effort and time spent on these videos!!! but these house upgrades are legit an endless process haha, with every upgrade we've done, three more keeps popping up out of nowhere lol
Fantastic video and channel you have - it's genuinely made new old home ownership manageable! Your content is very easy to understand with lots of little tips and tricks, and I've been able to safely take on more repair and reno projects than I ever thought before. If only our toilet's wax seal held, I wouldn't otherwise have a reason to replace a section of subfloor but this has all I need. Thanks!
Seriously the best CZcams channel. AND you empower people to solve problems themselves. Thank you!
To say you are awesome is a HUGE understatement! You ROCK! who needs a trade school when i can graduate just watching your examples and applying them in real life. Thank you for continuing education for all!!!
This is *EXACTLY* the video I need right now! I have a big plumbing project I have to do later this spring that has to be done solely through access holes in the subfloor. (Mobile home, house is too low to the ground for me to shimmy under there.....at least not if I expect to ever get back out again!)
You're such a master at this I wish I could have the time to be your helper and learn from you thank you for the knowledge.
You opened that up and took a step (before you said "in real life...) my eyes got wide and gasped. Then I realized it was a mockup. LOL (Insulation contractor myself, so I spend a lot of time walking and crawling on joists.)
Thinking a helpful tip would be trying to cut your piece close to the inside edge of a joist (you looked a couple inches off in this demo). So instead of having to do joist to joist blocking, you'd be able to just sister a 2x3 or 2x4 along the joist for bearing when re-installing the cutout. Wouldn't have to be right on the edge of the joist, even a 1/2 inch off the edge would give you 1" of wood to support the cutout once you attached a 2x4 to the joist.
Thanks for sharing your years of experience with us. Invaluable!!!
These are the tricks of an experienced carpenter! This Old House eat your heart out!
I love your videos!! We want to change our floor, but first check our under floor and now we can do it!! Thanks thanks thanks 🤩
Very comprehensive as usual Jeff. Congratulations on another helpful video. Hello from Australia 🇦🇺
Wow. I am literally in the midst of a bathroom remodel and was a bit perplexed. I have to replace the subfloor in one area / cutting along the edge of the wall perpendicular to the joists. This is *exactly* what I needed to see and I can apply the solution immediately. Thanks for the fantastic content, as always!
This is great stuff, Jeff! I could really use the same tips for drywall as I have to open a wall up to find an HVAC Freon leak.
Jeff, very timely for me-- need to open the floor to a too tight crawl space to inspect issues. Thank you!
This subflooring series is really informative. Thank you!
Thank you for this helpful video. We are new to DIY home building stuff and our first mission is to remove and replace rotten MDF floorboards. After watching your tutorial, I am confident I can do it. Thank you
14:50 cleaning up: I removed a mid ceiling soffit that contained light cans in the kitchen ceiling over an island. I was switching to pendants. The soffit had OSB against the bottoms of the joists. As I pulled off that OSB I was treated to 3 pieces of 12-15 inch long 2x4s and a couple of small pieces of OSB tumbling down. As soon as it happened I realized framers had just tossed the pieces of waste there. Your comment told me the previous workers could have been more considerate. I was lucky not to be hurt. I also realized a hard hat and goggles would have been a good idea. Just lucky the pieces didn’t hit me or my wife.
This is SUPER helpful!! I own a top/bottom duplex in Alaska that was built in 1971 and I need to soundproof the floor between the joist without tearing up all 3 layers of flooring (700 + sq.ft.). This technique will save me loads of time and money. Your awesome! Thank you Jeff!!
Man, I’ve learned so much from you. I feel like replacing one of your corded tools with an 18v. I don’t even own a house yet but I’ll be ready to renovate.
Awesome tutorial. Thanks for taking the time to create these videos. My next hope is to find out how to repair squeaks through the hardwood floor.
This is exactly what I need to fix a spot in my floor... when lumber is more cost effective, Thank you!
Angel for all DIYers, learn a lot from every video
Your videos are a life saver! Perhaps you could make a video with I-joists and closing subflooring. I can't seem to find any info on that. Manufactured joists are common in newer homes here in the midwest USA.
I'm renovating the bathroom in our house that was built in 1948. New plumbing (including sewer,) new subfloor, new walls. Among the many surprises in this project was the fact that they used screws on the original subfloor. That's right, old slotted screws that had to be put in by hand. I couldn't figure out why I was have a hard time pulling them out and why they were thicker than a normal nail until I looked at them closely. The subfloor was diagonally laid boards so it a screw on every board as it crossed the joist. Thanks for your videos. You've been a lot of help on this project.
This demonstration is awesome. Thanks Jeff!
My Pleasure Jeff! Cheers!
You are the Fred Penner of DIY, bless your heart Jeff and crew!!
Cheers Miles!
Had to remove some plywood where a cat peed and it stained and smelled all the way to the sub floor. Was nervous about replacing it as I've never done it before, but this video made me a lot more confident on how to get it done the right way. Excellent tips and super thorough!
Awesome video Jeff. I always learn something new from you.
I’ve done remodeling my whole life but I still like to watch these entry level tutorials because there is ALWAYS something new to be learned.
My only “complaint” about these mock ups is they often fail to account for real life. Putting in the blocking where you have plumbing pipes or other obstructions make screwing them in a bit of a challenge. I’ve seen plumbing run clear up to the bottom of the subfloor before. If you don’t know that and the cut it out in a random square you may find you simply must remove the entire piece anyway. Bottom line is it’s never this easy :). Nice video
Love all your videos. Thanks for taking the time👍🏼
Thanks for these video. I am prepping to get into my subfloor because I have a couple really bouncy/creaky and worrying me.
Exactly what I was looking for.. Thank you for showing us some knowledge..
this is going to be a great series looking forward to more of these
Thank you Sir! you are very clever! one of my favorite teachers in youtube
I like to install the board down the long cut flat like you said you shouldn't and then install 2x4 cripple blocking properly 16 oc undernieth it from joist to joist, gives a really solid connection, little bit of PL goes a long way too.
Extremely helpful, thank you!
Awesome video as always. Thanks Jeff.
We are replacing a bathroom and need to recenter the drain for the shower pan. We have 1 inch subfloor plywood!! So this video was perfect since we wanted to try and save as much of the floor that we can.
Cheers you got this!
Today I was thinking, its time to patch the subfloor in my remodel and I'm thinking, I wonder if Jeff has a video on that. Sure enough you do! Thanks again for all of the videos!
Thanks so much for this video!
I was struggling with how I was going to replace the drain plumbing under my shower sub-floor, and your excellent video has given me some confidence to tackle this job myself.
I wondered what size the screws were that you used to connect the wood pieces to the joists?
This is gold...thank you
Thank you!! You just saved me $500 with this video series!!!
Very timely video (as is usual!) Just pulled up the cheap flooring tiles in one of the bathrooms and found that water had gotten underneath the tiles from the bathtub and the subfloor is pretty discolored so will be replacing that.
Cheers Stephen. you got this!
Literally was just thinking about this and it’s now a video 🤯🤯🤯
ask and you shall receive!
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY Hey Jeff love the spectacles! Who makes them/where did you get them? Mine are always falling off; yours seem to hold on and look fantastic!
This video series is incredibly interesting, informative, and enjoyable! You're giving us tons of golden nuggets out of the kindness of your heart and I hope God/Universe repays you 1000 folds for all your heart work and kindness! I'm learning a great deal and I'm loving it a lot! Thank you so much for everything you do for us!!! 💜
Love helping folks. great that I can make a living doing this! Cheers!
@@HomeRenoVisionDIY It shows that you love helping people! You're very meticulous in your teachings, and laid back, too. Which seems to be an oxymoron to even put those 2 words in the same sentence, however, it's actually true in your case.
I'm very glad and thankful that you're able to make a living out of something you love and that you're investing in us all by teaching us what you know in such precise/meticulous manner! Sorry, I'm not buttering you up! I'm just in awe. I know a great teacher when I see one, and I know how hard great teachers are to come by! So, thank you again! 💜
Great information, I needed to know how to fix my rotting floor, removal and replacement.
Glad it was helpful!
Great video! Thanks.
Awesome, awesome, awesome information. Thank you!
I wish I could have seen this video 17 years ago when I bought my now 70 year old house. GREAT VIDEO!!!!
EDIT::::::I am the second owner of this house. It was owned and built by the previous owner, who also built ALL the single family houses in my city.
Thank you so much for your videos! (These are right in time for my floors.) I always want to get things right the first time and not make dumb/costly/dangerous mistakes. You're an awesome mentor!! (P.S. Be good to your knees! and wear knee pads. We luv ya and don't want future knee surgery slowing ya down!)
Excellent video
That was excellent Jeff
I needed this. Thanks!
My old house had a squatter who urinated all over the subfloor in my renovated carport. The wood needs to completely come out and new wood replaced. This is a helpful video thank you!
such useful info omg thank you sir
Thank you Jeff, if you for the tip not standing on the drywall
Awesome video!
I Love your stuff Jeff, I learn so much from your videos... you sir are the a great educator... one of the best. Keep them videos coming sir. God Bless, Jesus Rocks! John 3:16 †
For short little cuts like where he did the corners a Multi Tool is the way to go.
Great for cuts in tight awkward places and very little chance of " collateral damage" to other things like the Sawzall.
The bevelled edge tip is gold.
Thank you for the great video! 👍
Thank you
These videos are perfectly timed for a project I’m working on. I can’t thank you enough for all the knowledge you’ve shared with us. I’m smashing that “like” button on every video and I’m now subscribed to the channel.
Question for you....I’ve torn everything (shower, vanity, mirror, tile and drywall) out of our bathroom. The previous owner had some kinda black adhesive (mastic), linoleum tile, concrete board and then tile on the floor. I tore all that out and I’m left with a black adhesive everywhere on the floor. I’ve tried everything to get it off, but no success. Do I use the techniques in this video to remove the old subfloor? (The room is 60in x 60in for the tile area) or do I just pour thinset onto the mastic, the Ditra, more thinset, then the tiles?
Thanks!
Great tips
Thank you for sharing
Great video.....great explanation...
Come on Jeff, 4x8 OSB? Are you trying to bankrupt us :). Awesome video. I was fearing doing this on my master bath renovation where I plan to add another tub drain for a jetted tub and work some leveling issues to help the tile install.
Cheers, now you have a template to follow that makes the floor even stronger than before!
Hey Jeff, thanks for sharing this info.
My subfloor is old enough to have boards on the diagonal. When I'm ready to replace the flooring(very soon), should I remove all the subfloor and replace it with OSB?
You're the best and i appreciate you taking the time out to make these super helpful videos for people like me who have not touched a hammer 😅
Just the tip! 😂 super helpful videos. Thank you!
Great vid. thanks!
Great video! A great add on video to this would be “how to remove and reinstall carpet in the small area you just opened”
What size screws are you using to re attach the wood panel ?
Use an oscillating multi tool to complete the cuts in the corners plunge cuts
$92 a sheet here in the Philadelphia area..... Wow I can't believe you sacrificing that sheet for a video....a true CZcamsr!
Thank-you
I build my floors with dimensioned lumber and plywood subflooring (IMHO - OSB is one mop bucket spill away from turning into sponge board). Before I install my subfloors, I lay temporary 2x6s along the middle of the joists (marked 16" OC) and flatten and straighten the joists from above with screws through the temporary 2x6 spine. Once the joists are straight and true, I permanently lock the locations of the joists in place with central blocking (and remove the temporary 2x6s). I never see a camber (overall warping forces cancel out) and I always wind up with a dead flat floor that will never turn to mush.
Jeff, I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but, I’ll have to pull the carpet and do this. The original home owner had baseboard heat in this 30 year old house. Back in 2009 he had it switched to forced air. Well when they did the duct runs, I found they cut the sub floor out and only put a few screws in it. I need to do this to fix it the right way since it pops and squeaks obnoxiously :/
Thank you for your very informative and helpful videos...I'm a 60 yr. old women trying to fix two rotted bathroom subfloors! One question, putting the adhesive on the floor joists...wouldn't that be a problem for anyone who in the future may want to do a floor repair? Wouldn't the adhesive tear up those floor joists when the subfloor is removed??? I ask this because what would happen if for some reason there was a future leak in the bathroom...someone might want to repair...but then, the entire floor joists as well would have to be replaced along with the plywood? Thank you, I learned a lot.
The floor we all standing on is pretty unstable these days and I'm afraid there is no easy fix for that one...Cheers Jeff!
19.2 inch o/c is really common too with engineered joist (8'/5)
This is great
👍 - Make sure to use "just the tip" ! 🤣
I learn that first hand on demolition job after floading a basement
11:35 you also have a nice clean hole to do what ever you want to it.
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@@Engineer9736 laugh or smile much?
@@shojus its just cringy 🙂
I never take out the battery but I will do it now because I see many times, there might be a potential.