This is great! I have a very unlevel floor in my shop. Ive wanted to level the floor for a while. I'd like to pull up the flooring and the osb they used under. It's had some water damage. But I was trying to find a way to get it level. This would work great!
If you are experienced and handy with a circular saw preferably a worm drive you can make very quick work of this. All you need is a set of saw horses 2 screws to fasten the board and a straight edge or chalk line. Have done 1000's of cuts leveling out 1500 foot old farmhouses in a day. Not that this is not a good idea or doesn't work. Festool is just a very expensive tool that not everyone has. And most all the other track saws on the market other then festool are junk.
I'd love to get a little more detail on this easier method. I have a very old wooden shed to use as my workshop and just need a basic method of leveling the floor good enough. It's not worth a lot of time and expense. Looking for cheap and easy.
I would like to level my laundry room floor as it has a pitch to it and I really wasn't sure how to go about cutting "wedge" pieces with a circular saw because the cuts would have to be perfect.
I did recently. How I would bend a 2X6 to floor that is 4" off. Yours way do not work always. I did video to "leveling of floor with furring strips Zell"
I have a very similar project. Did you remove any drywall. My new subfloor will be higher than the current drywall. I was wondering if I need to cut off the drywall to slide the new subfloor under the wall?
@@postbeam8200 Thanks for the tutorial. I’m currently replacing all the subfloors in my parents 100+ year old house and you have me seriously considering picking up a track saw of some kind because like you said I don’t think I want to try it on my table saw.
Hi kenchan529, Each long shim is located directly overtop of an existing floor joist located below the old subfloor that is the reason for the spacing. By using 4-inch long screws and tying the new long shims directly into the old floor joists below we are transferring the load directly onto to the old joist. Another advantage is that by sandwiching the old subfloor boards in-between everything is tied together and it has eliminated all the squeaks and creaks the floor use to make. We have been using the floor for almost 6 months and it is working flawlessly. Very stiff, quiet, and level. We are happy with the result.
I completely disagree with everyone leveling floors like this. This method of leveling is wrong because you are raising the floor higher than the neighboring floor. You need to cut away the beam to lower highest part so you level the floor with existing floor without raising it.
Your method would decrease the strength of the joist. I suppose you could sister new joists to compensate but that’s a lot more material and labor. Also what if there is framing sitting on top of the joist(s) at the high point? How would you account for that?
Dude, 200 year old floor in Scotland.......thank you for the guide......RESPECT! PS Table saw is so scary .
Wish me luck! I'm going to try this technique. Seems the most straight forward way
Thats actually by far best best for me I watched many these kind of videos .
thank you
Great video! This is exactly what I’m going to do. Thank you for your time making and posting this video!
This is great! I have a very unlevel floor in my shop. Ive wanted to level the floor for a while. I'd like to pull up the flooring and the osb they used under. It's had some water damage. But I was trying to find a way to get it level. This would work great!
Cool glad to help! After over a year the floor has been great, no squeaks, creeks, or anything. Just flat and finished! Good Luck!
Good job and great idea dude 😎
If you are experienced and handy with a circular saw preferably a worm drive you can make very quick work of this. All you need is a set of saw horses 2 screws to fasten the board and a straight edge or chalk line. Have done 1000's of cuts leveling out 1500 foot old farmhouses in a day. Not that this is not a good idea or doesn't work. Festool is just a very expensive tool that not everyone has. And most all the other track saws on the market other then festool are junk.
I'd love to get a little more detail on this easier method. I have a very old wooden shed to use as my workshop and just need a basic method of leveling the floor good enough. It's not worth a lot of time and expense. Looking for cheap and easy.
I would like to level my laundry room floor as it has a pitch to it and I really wasn't sure how to go about cutting "wedge" pieces with a circular saw because the cuts would have to be perfect.
Ryobi has a track saw now for what it's worth, still expensive however
I did recently. How I would bend a 2X6 to floor that is 4" off. Yours way do not work always. I did video to "leveling of floor with furring strips Zell"
Great video it helped me quite a bit!! Thanks!
I have a very similar project. Did you remove any drywall. My new subfloor will be higher than the current drywall. I was wondering if I need to cut off the drywall to slide the new subfloor under the wall?
Very good idea!
Jsut bought a table saw with this idea in kind to fix a floor dip lol…back to Lowe’s I go
Sorry, I do love my track saw no regrets in the past 5 years. Good Luck!
Could have built a quick taper jig for that table saw
I think they are called sleepers instead of stringers.
You are 100% correct sir! I stand corrected :)
@@postbeam8200 Thanks for the tutorial. I’m currently replacing all the subfloors in my parents 100+ year old house and you have me seriously considering picking up a track saw of some kind because like you said I don’t think I want to try it on my table saw.
@@jerod5636 Yeah the track saw was a game changer for me. I have a table saw but I se the track saw 90% of the time now.
Great idea
Great Video! Curious as to the spacing you have between the long shims to level the floor and what if anything you do for the joists below the boards?
Hi kenchan529, Each long shim is located directly overtop of an existing floor joist located below the old subfloor that is the reason for the spacing. By using 4-inch long screws and tying the new long shims directly into the old floor joists below we are transferring the load directly onto to the old joist. Another advantage is that by sandwiching the old subfloor boards in-between everything is tied together and it has eliminated all the squeaks and creaks the floor use to make. We have been using the floor for almost 6 months and it is working flawlessly. Very stiff, quiet, and level. We are happy with the result.
You set up
How often you doing this?
Easy when you have a track :-)
I have to cut 4.8m tapers!!!
But floors are not sagging in stright line. They go like 2" of level than 2,5 than go to 1,5.
Do you use a 360• laser? I have a regular self leveling laser
No good if your floor slopes down and.up or is curvy.
They’re called sleepers
Heh, did it the same way, literally couldn’t do it wo the track saw.
Wowwww this is what I need to do I think
1 year since "leveling" the floor everything is working, no squeaks, creaks, and its solid as a rock. Glad I decided to do it this way. Good luck!
I completely disagree with everyone leveling floors like this. This method of leveling is wrong because you are raising the floor higher than the neighboring floor. You need to cut away the beam to lower highest part so you level the floor with existing floor without raising it.
Your method would decrease the strength of the joist. I suppose you could sister new joists to compensate but that’s a lot more material and labor. Also what if there is framing sitting on top of the joist(s) at the high point? How would you account for that?