Thank you sir! I’m getting ready to install my vinyl floors and couldn’t have been confident enough to attempt the job myself without all your videos. So helpful and kind of you to share your knowledge. Thanks for all you do!
I agree go over the hardwood!😊 I had dark hardwood floors in bedrooms. I installed Maple Laminate over them. No sanding. In one day. They been down for 20 years, The living room dining room had carpet so pulled it up and Maple Laminate also.
Joe -- you tha man.. i don't think I need this video, but I watched many many hours of your other videos. Getting ready to do my floors, and I got some of those proknee knee pads -- freaking EXCELLENT quality recommendation. Looking forward to my first flooring project soon!
Kudos, you have to balance budget, on-site considerations and home owner….decisions. it’s always a bakancing act to get a job done you can be proud of, warranty and know you did the best you could. respect.
Agree! It all just depends on the situation... if you’re facing a LOT of tear out and labor in hauling away, sometimes it’s easier and more cost effective to just throw down some underlayment to build up to height. Have had to do this many times on jobs. Especially when you’re looking at tearing out material that’s stapled down like other existing underlayment and sheet vinyl... so many staples 😩 lol
First, thanks for the first illustration of the unlevel seam of wood to old area with the 4 ft level stick - I installed my kitchen tile (on pier and beam 1965 cabin) using cement board for stability along with 1/8" cork for insulation (I freeze in the winters). I knew that my den would not match this galley kitchen, and I knew that the dining room that has laminate (which I am NOT REMOVING-I need the insulation) DOES match the tile level in one door way. In the den, where it is unlevel by A LOT, I purchased a 1/8 inch board which made the difference with the 2 underlayments (cork and UL that I purchased with the Eng. Hardwood) - and WOW, I just got to the end and your humble prayer for all of us DIYer's. That was Awesome, Jesus is my Head contractor (he is the greatest CREATOR) and is helping me renovate this home by myself. I show up, pray and he guides me what to do, which was watch this video! AMEN! God Bless you richly!
What do you recommend for a difference of less than 1/4 inch? The difference from my living room to the kitchen is 2mm. When I lay down my laminate it rocks back and forth because of this lip. I was thinking of using Henry floor patch and gradually feathering it.
So my house tile in most of the house. The bedrooms however had carpet. So obviously when I take the carpet out, it will just be concrete underneath. I really don't want to remove all this tile and was just going to lay the vinyl ontop. What should I put in the bedrooms to make the floors the same height? I live is socal and my house was built in 2006 so we don't have any sub flooring like the video shows.
Glad to have found your video! We have this exact dilemma. After removing an old carpet, we discovered half inch difference from our living roon to the kitchen floor (open floor space). Can I use sheating plywood or sande plywood to level our floor before putting Vinyl? Super confused on what type of pywood to buy. Hope you can help. Thank you!
My flooring contractor is trying to accommodate a level change from hardwood to entryways that had sheet vinyl by just laying down thin cork... The LVP squishes down under foot at the transition. Seems like a crazy unprofessional installation to me. After watching this video, I think I need to get these guys out of there before they waste any more time.
I am in a condo (2nd floor) Unfortunately we had a water leak from a bathroom faucet, and ServPro decided to remove my engineered hardwood, along with the gypcrete underlayment in certain areas (they claim this was done to help the wooden subfloor to dry) We had a company come out and re-pour the gypcrete (ServPro removed about 80% of the gypcrete in my condo) Since the gypcrete was poured and the LVP planks were since installed, I noticed the LVP creaks, slightly pops at times when walking over the floor. I know the floor is not level, because the gypcrete is poured in, and even though it is supposed to self level, we still have some considerable high and low spots. The flooring company we used did not evaluate the floor evenness before installing the LVP. Now that the LVP is installed and the floor can at times be noisy, can you give me a idea of what options we may have to correct this. Thanks.
You know, When I think about Jesus separating the sheep and the goats, I think about him watching us all and saying for some, well this guy did well in the test of the world before. I know he will do well in my kingdom. Although my hope is the same for all, I sometimes look at various people and say, I really hope he is there. You are one of those people. I love your heart. Thank you as well for the nice instructional videos, and thank you for loving others enough to pray for them.
I really appreciate that! My greatest hope is to be there and I believe I will be. There are 3 things I know about heaven - 1) we will be surprised by who is there 2) we will be surprised by who is not there 3) we will be surprised that we made it
So glad I found this channel. I have a cheaply built house from the late 70's. Concrete subfloor downstairs, one area tiled that I'll be removing. The upstairs though is plywood. Really weak 1/2" plywood that moves when you walk and squeaks like crazy! I'm thinking I should beef it up and I've been thinking about adding 3/4" osb on top. Couple of questions if you'd be so kind: should I use the tongue and groove or just the kind you butt together? Should I glue and screw on top of the plywood, or just screw it down? Should I be screwing this layer into the joists? Thanks so much for all of the help on your videos!
Tho I know most this stuff, I love watching your videos... Just watching your vids I probably learned a lot more then when I worked with some Journeyman Floor layers out there... Keep up the good work
So is it possible to just lay some long shims for say 3/4" difference or use some feather finish or thin set to create a long ramp? how much can vinyl floors be manipulated in that way??? i hope one of yall know some good info on this!!
Sometimes the problem with costumer is the budget of removing all the layers and get to the subfloor, because of the prices of materials. Also sometimes door casings have to be replaced too
l used to face this same issue with customers. So, I found out that if l honed my skills, delivered outstanding customer service, that in no time flat l was ONLY serving the most discriminating clients where prices was never EVER the issue. That made all the difference to the rest of my career.
Partner came into possession of a house by a legal technicality. We tore up the crappy vaneered floor. The kitchen is 1/4" higher than the living room and the plywood in the center of the living room is almost 1/2" raised.
Quick question. The house I bought is predominantly tile with carpet in the bedrooms. After I rip out the carpet what can I use to level the previously carpeted areas to the tile height so I can lay the luxury vinyl planks throughout the house. Oh the floor in the bedroom is concrete.....thanks in advance for your help 🙏
We are doing our whole house. We have to tear up carpet but we plan to just go over the linoleum in kitchen/dining room and bathrooms as well as front door area and laundry room. Will the floor show that slight difference if we go from the floor under carpet to linoleum?! Hope that makes sense.
We recently pulled out carpet in our home and found 1100 SF of particle board under it. It's in pretty good shape, minus a few pet stains. I plan on replacing those areas with fresh plywood and sealing the rest with a couple of coats of BIN primer. This will only be in the living, dining and bedrooms. In the wet areas we'll remove and replace the particle board. Do you think that will be sufficient? With the cost of plywood, I'm really hoping so.
I am trying to build up floor in a diy nightmare home. There's the 3/4 subfloor, then 1/4 ply stapled on that. In the dining room another 3/4 ply screwed to that. How would I properly add another 3/4 ply to level the two rooms? Staples?
I have a question/situation that I would like you to address. I have a three-quarter inch subfloor raised foundation and I am putting on 8 mm engineered vinyl planks.. I am trying to match a three-quarter inch oak floor in height. So, I have to put down a spacer, I’m thinking 3/8 to half inch cc plug touch sanded plywood. Should I glue it and staple it or is stapling it enough?
How would we level a floor if there’s like a step down into a different room/area? We have a “den” that used to be part of a garage that’s completely open to our living room. How do we make it all one level?
So what if my house has concrete floor? I redid my bathroom it originally had vinyl sheet flooring. I recently put vinyl planks instead but it's still lower than my living room. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I don't want to have to remove the tiles in the whole living room
Thank you for this video. It is very informative. I am using 3/8 underlayment over original 5/8 sub floor. Would you recommend using PL Premium to glue it down as well as crown staple?
I am enjoying all of your videos and learn a lot. I put down a vinyl plank floor in the living room dining room. now I want to continue into the Kitchen. it is vinyl sheet over 1/4 underlay so it sticks up like 3/8 should we just rip it out? could we go over top? not sure of the best way to go about this area?
In this video it shows baseboard hot water heater vents which I have in my rooms do you have a video showing how to deal with these style vents when adding the additional height of the flooring? I know this video is to show the raising of the floor levels and I see the underlayment being pushed under the bottom, do the covers need be detached from the wall and then reset once the floors are installed? I probably answered my own question but would like to know how it's dealt with professionally, your videos have inspired me to take on my own floor install for a kitchen/dining room that now has sheet laminate that I will be removing. Thanks!
I have 5/16 hard wood in livingroom. I removed the kitchen floor to the sub floor. I need to rise the kitchen floor 5/16 to meet the oak flooring. How do I get the same height as the hard wood
Can you use transition strips? I am having my dining room/kitchen living room the same vinyl plank flooring, but in the dining kitchen area the new flooring will go over our vinyl tile flooring but living room the flooring will be taken out before new flooring installation so that means there will be a little height difference between the rooms ... So can I put a transition strip to kinda separate the rooms? I have a open floor plan house and just would like to have same flooring in the main area
My house was built in the 90s and we are about to install this flooring but in the kitchen where they put Lonolium but they put down a quarter inch plywood down to glue it to but it's under all the cabinets should I just cut around the cabinets and tear this up so the floor is all one height or should I install quarter inch plywood on the rest of the house where they had carpet and under the carpet is 3/4 thick plywood. Is this quarter inch plywood going to be a pain in the butt to get up?
I love your videos and u are probably asked this all the time. When u install the lvp over the hardwood, do you have to worry about moisture? and if u do, how do u mitigate it?
Some say they have had issues with this, but I never have had an issue. And I live in northern Minnesota where we have extreme changes in temps and humidity. I would suggest using quiet walk pad - amzn.to/3AtMQ3p
Hey Joe, I’m doing a kitchen that’s in bad shape floor wise, I removed old glue down parquet wood flooring that was attached to old linoleum probably from 1930s, then major hump/ crown in the center of the kitchen, no chance of leveling because it would raise areas leading out of kitchen which is fairly level, have you ever used Sakrete trowel grade
I'm replacing carpet in a section of my house that's going to become an office. I live on a concreate slab. To match the existing height i'm going to need some kind of 1/4" plywood, but how do I secure it to the concrete?? I JUST pulled up the tac strips that were nailed down. Don't tell me I have to nail this down as well! 😭 Or could I glue it down instead? Thanks!
Is there a drop at the door? I guess I am trying to understand why there is a 1/4 inch difference. No, I would not use wood on a concrete slab to achieve this, I would build the floor up with something else. Maybe you can share some pics with me at - joeletendre@sothatshowyoudothat.com
I want too have vinyl planking installed in the kitchen living room and hall way but my kitchen is 1'16 higher then my living room because when they installed the linoleum years ago the put the 3'8 sub floor on top of it and then then the new linoleum if you remove the top linoleum Can you still install the vinyl planking with that height difference? Thank you?
I’m in the process of installing lvp in my kitchen and living room. The kitchen has vinyl with underlayment and the living room has vinyl plank.The kitchen floor is higher than the living room. Do you suggest I remove the vinyl in kitchen with the underlayment or do I build up the living room by adding the quarter inch underlayment and just install over the vinyl in the kitchen ?
Just found your channel, and I’m getting ready to put laminate flooring In my living room that connects to the kitchen! Now should I build the floor up using underlayment ? Cause the kitchen has vinyl flooring ! Would love some suggestions!! Thanks
Would I be able to lay plywood down on low pile carpet to install interlocking vinyl flooring on top without having to fasten the plywood through the carpet to the subfloor?
We had vinyl flooring installed in house. The contractor hired a subcontractor do the job. The sub used to different workers to install the floor. On the second day, the sub brought in a different guy. This person did NOT lay down sub floor in a section that did have tile, but the bare foundation. Now there is a different height where there is tile and no tile and sub flooring. The vinyl is starting to sag. In addition, the vinyl goes all the to the under the new counter. Can this be repaired. We in the process of hiring an attorney. The owner of the company NEVER dropped by the house to see the floor and we haven't spoken with him.
@@sothatshowyoudothat Thanks for the quick reply. No doorway. Seperation between dinning room and kitchen. Dinner has hardwood and kitchen is linolium. Kitchen is 1/8 lower. Thanks
I'm about to install laminate wood floor my question is can I use 1/4 inch hardie board instead of plywood, just cause I already have plenty of hardie board if possible what should I do? Only reason why I need to add some type of flooring is cause restroom floor is to high so.
Thank you for sharing this video. New Subbed Here! Happy I found your channel. Not sure if someone already asked. If I want to raise the tile floor about 1/4 lower than the hardwood floor can I also use plywood or cement board? If so, would you recommend using construction glue or concrete screws? Thanks 🙏
If I want to raise the height of concrete subfloor, can I do it using plywood (like how you showed)? One flooring store owner in my area told me that the plywood might not be stable if we just use adhesive and stick it to the subfloor, and it may lead to squeaking issues for floating floor. Is he correct? We live in Northern California which is mostly dry.
I remodeled my kitchen And removed old tile and than 1 layer of 3/4 in underlayment that was glued and nailed and had thinset all over it. I stripped it out to the original subfloor and that floor had glue and is kinda rough. I was going to go over the original subfloor with the new 3/4 T and G but they want $90 a sheet right now. I need about 20 sheets. Subfloor is just too rough and needs some leveling. I'm not sure if 1/4 in would be good enough for the floor deflection. The original floor is that old 5/8 T and G, the floor joist are 2x8. I feelike I need more to keep the floor from flexing.
Great video love the content! I have a question i do a big of flooring but i have never done a vinyl flooring! With that said what would you say is the best underlining for pergo 10mm with underlayment attached. Im going over hardwood as well ! Thank you in advance
@@sothatshowyoudothat yes that is the part were i dont wont to put anything crappy under . I was looking for something quiet with kids , pets just every day nice walk with all the options and talking with a few ppl u know that do flooring they say to use quite walk from hd but not sure if that is what a pro like you would use . Thanks again for your response. God bless any help would be greatly appreciated
I just bought a house and there is 2 different carpets between bedrooms have a short pile and living room having a long pile. And the kitchen, bathrooms and entry have the ugly beige square tiles. I was planning on ripping out tile, I wonder if I could build up the area where carpet is. But that is a large area so not sure
Hi Joe any advice on how to tap end to end joints on laminate planks when the walls are angled at both ends of the room as the end tapping bar is only suitable for square ends . I would appreciate your advice
I’ve been searching for answers through videos/comments but can’t seem to find it. I ripped out carpet in my spares but the rest of my house has brown ceramic tile directly over concrete, creating about a 1/2” difference. I want to build up my spares to level with the existing tile and do a seamless LVP throughout the house but am unsure on how to do that since wood isn’t recommended to go directly over concrete. I’ve seen basement subfloor videos but wasn’t sure if I’d need all of the extra layers or not (landscape fabric/6 mil plastic/delta fl etc etc) and don’t want to purchase the wrong sized underlayment if i do need additional layers in between and it then be above level. Can you give any insight on this? Thank you!
Can you do this if the below surface is concrete? I am planning to put vinyl planks all over my house but the current situation is tile and carpet. I'll leave the tile and remove the carpet and will have exactly 1/4 height different between tile and concrete. Will have to use tapcon type of screws to hold the 1/4" plywood over concrete...
@@sothatshowyoudothat Because is way too big area. Is the 1st floor Kitchen, bathroom, hallway and foyer of a townhouse. And a small area with rug on living room/dining room. That area is way smaller than everything else. Any other option you would consider to build up?
Would 1/4” tempered hardboard from Menards work as underlayment for 14mm laminate (includes 2mm backing) flooring ? I am trying to minimize the cost ! Already laid laminate in kitchen and dining room on top of the linoleum and am now moving on to the living room after ripping up carpet. Thank you for the videos and thank you for the prayers !!
I wouldn’t use the tempered hardboard. Have you seen what water does to it? If you watch Finish Carpentry TV, Richard uses it on his wall and ceiling projects. I would trust it there, but not on the flooring. Go to Lowe’s, they sell a 5mm (close to 1/4”) plywood that doesn’t delaminate, it has really good reviews. Better reviews than the similar product at Depot. I’m installing Flooret Modin Ridgid LVP. Our kitchen and eating area is approximately 3/4” higher than our foyer and dining room (which is a big room!). I installed 1/2” QEP cork sheeting over top of the existing hardwood, then 5mm plywood on top of that. It’s a really sturdy subfloor now and meets the kitchen floor height perfectly. You can use duct tape to tape the plywood sheeting together after cutting and fitting. That’ll give it that tightness he was talking about. Then you can staple it in place. I cut the plywood on my Flexvolt Tablesaw and it turned out well.
Being that my laminate flooring is so thick, do I need to be highly concerned about laying the plywood tight with no gaps? I will be using screws to fasten it down. How should I space them ?
Thank you, I am very glad to have found your channel! I plan to replace the carpet in our living room with vinyl plank. This will create a long transition (15 ft) between the vinyl and the existing ceramic tile. I've watched many of your videos showing how to do such transitions with T-strips etc, but most of them are relatively short. My concern is that because the transition is quite long in my case, the end of the vinyl floor next to the ceramic tiles may become loose at some point, and wonder if I should use glue to keep the vinyl attached to the subfloor. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
@@canle7973 This is exactly my situation - want to replace carpet in living room with vinyl plank with the rest of my flooring being large white ceramic tile. Transition length - about 17 feet ! Thank you for asking the question. I don't fully understand about the glue. Do you just do the plank next to the ceramic tile or are you gluing the entire vinyl plank floor?
We have a concrete slab that is 3/4 inch lower than the engineered hardwood everywhere else. We bought plywood to go over the slab which brings it to height but not sure the best way to adhere it to the concrete or if there is a better option. Anyone have any advice?
I came across this on a project today… I want to raise subfloor 3/4” with plywood on concrete…did you end up getting an answer or how did you end up going about this issue?
I have a question. We live in a 80 year old house. We have a partial basement and rest crawl space. The floor where transisition happens is almost half inch up and near stairs there's slope. Before we bought this house 3 years back. Few spaces I found slope of quarter inch too. The floor is solid wood and we resurfaced it. But to match it with our first floor(we ripped the carpet out and someone installed the engineering floor). Now my wife wants to get the new flooring done on main floor. Any recommendations from expert like you would be much appreciated.
Because the house is older I would try to make the floors even by building up. It is going to be impossible to make an 80 year old house perfect. You have to improvise and be creative.
I want to install LVT on top of my hardwood, but my I don't want to add leveling cement on top on the uneven hardwood just in case in the future. How can I install LVT on uneven hardwood floor without destroying it?
What if the situation is exactly opposite- I have hardwood in my living room that transitioned to linoleum. I want to make it all hard wood (open concept, taking out the wall) but putting the hardwood on top of the current subfloor would make it about 1/2in higher than the exsisting hardwood floor in the living room. Is my only option to replace the subfloor with something thinner?
I started doing floors because I thought roofing was too hard. :/ Perhaps plumbing, water will always only flow in one direction, right? How complicated can it be?
How often are you dealing with customers not wanting to pay for build up or tearing out. I've been running in to customers that want to just gradually float the height difference. Just did a living room, dining room and hallway and kitchen. The kitchen was much higher but they didn't want to tear out the kitchen floor so I explained that's the proper way to do it but I'll do what they want. Floated almost a inch difference
Depends on state you live/work in... Years ago the "sign off" use to work... But now in court lawyers use the loophole of "you the professional installer" knew better but still went against the flooring Institute and laid it anyway... Beware sometime that job may come back and bite you.
I have this problem but with concrete. I need to slope one floor (room) to the other. Any ideas? Everywherr is level except going in to this one room. Been racking my brain for days about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Hi! I have the issue of subfloor screws not being flush. I’m going from carpet to lvp. There are so many of these screws that are not flush on one part of the room and I don’t want them to present bumps in my lvp. What steps do I need to take?
I'm installing LVP FLOORING ...... from one room to the next....room was an add on over the years and the floor is 1¹/2 higher than other floor. Any suggestions on the transition?
That is tough. Is building that room up an option? When you get into transitions that significant, it is then time to pull out the tablesaw and get creative. Meaning make your own transition.
@@sothatshowyoudothat thanks for the reply. I actually watched your transition video after I sent reply/question last night. I'll be able to use an "overlapping stair nose " which I saw in your video...🙂 thanks.. your vids have drastically helped our DIY installation today.
I just replaced my subfloor and noticed that it is higher in the center of the floor. Should I be concerned about this when installing a vinyl planks . Your input would be much appreciated.
I watch all your videos and learn something from each one. Thanks for the prayers and God bless you as well
Thank you so much!
I'm not a religious man and alot of the time I end a video when someone starts on about it but this guys seems super qenuine. Great videos bud
Thanks brother!
Thank you sir! I’m getting ready to install my vinyl floors and couldn’t have been confident enough to attempt the job myself without all your videos. So helpful and kind of you to share your knowledge. Thanks for all you do!
I agree go over the hardwood!😊 I had dark hardwood floors in bedrooms. I installed Maple Laminate over them. No sanding. In one day. They been down for 20 years, The living room dining room had carpet so pulled it up and Maple Laminate also.
Thanks for sharing!
Joe -- you tha man.. i don't think I need this video, but I watched many many hours of your other videos. Getting ready to do my floors, and I got some of those proknee knee pads -- freaking EXCELLENT quality recommendation. Looking forward to my first flooring project soon!
Great videos. The father in haven bless you and your family.
Thank you! You too! I really appreciate your blessing!
Best flooring channel on youtube
Thank you very much!
that stapler gunna need to smoke a cigarette after that job
Kudos, you have to balance budget, on-site considerations and home owner….decisions. it’s always a bakancing act to get a job done you can be proud of, warranty and know you did the best you could.
respect.
Excellent tips and how you break down the steps to install at every process.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Love LVP. Your channel rocks and so does your experience and knowledge in flooring...ty
Thank you so much!
Agree! It all just depends on the situation... if you’re facing a LOT of tear out and labor in hauling away, sometimes it’s easier and more cost effective to just throw down some underlayment to build up to height. Have had to do this many times on jobs. Especially when you’re looking at tearing out material that’s stapled down like other existing underlayment and sheet vinyl... so many staples 😩 lol
Well said!
Good tips, prayers back at you and the family 🙏🏻
Thanks so much
This is exactly the information I have been looking for!!!! Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you for praying. I receive that.
Amen!
First, thanks for the first illustration of the unlevel seam of wood to old area with the 4 ft level stick - I installed my kitchen tile (on pier and beam 1965 cabin) using cement board for stability along with 1/8" cork for insulation (I freeze in the winters). I knew that my den would not match this galley kitchen, and I knew that the dining room that has laminate (which I am NOT REMOVING-I need the insulation) DOES match the tile level in one door way. In the den, where it is unlevel by A LOT, I purchased a 1/8 inch board which made the difference with the 2 underlayments (cork and UL that I purchased with the Eng. Hardwood) - and WOW, I just got to the end and your humble prayer for all of us DIYer's. That was Awesome, Jesus is my Head contractor (he is the greatest CREATOR) and is helping me renovate this home by myself. I show up, pray and he guides me what to do, which was watch this video! AMEN! God Bless you richly!
What do you recommend for a difference of less than 1/4 inch? The difference from my living room to the kitchen is 2mm. When I lay down my laminate it rocks back and forth because of this lip. I was thinking of using Henry floor patch and gradually feathering it.
Great video! Trying to install with this same issue.
Thank you for these videos Joe.
It’s not like it’s turn of the century beautiful hard woods. Love your Chanel and work. Thank you and God bless.
Another great video. God bless you also
Thank you! You too!
omg I so enjoyed the pray at the end
You are the best explaining man
Thank you!
Thank you sir. I'm literally in this same situation. Very helpful.
For cutting those notches in the sub-floor, you really should get a multi-tool ("oscillating tool"). It's so great for those kinds of little cuts.
So my house tile in most of the house. The bedrooms however had carpet. So obviously when I take the carpet out, it will just be concrete underneath. I really don't want to remove all this tile and was just going to lay the vinyl ontop. What should I put in the bedrooms to make the floors the same height? I live is socal and my house was built in 2006 so we don't have any sub flooring like the video shows.
Always a great video, please keep posting my friend.....
Thanks, will do!
Thank you for the information video, going to try it!
You got this!
Awesome video. Thanks for the prayers!
Glad to have found your video! We have this exact dilemma. After removing an old carpet, we discovered half inch difference from our living roon to the kitchen floor (open floor space). Can I use sheating plywood or sande plywood to level our floor before putting Vinyl? Super confused on what type of pywood to buy. Hope you can help. Thank you!
Thank you, God's man.
My flooring contractor is trying to accommodate a level change from hardwood to entryways that had sheet vinyl by just laying down thin cork... The LVP squishes down under foot at the transition. Seems like a crazy unprofessional installation to me. After watching this video, I think I need to get these guys out of there before they waste any more time.
I am in a condo (2nd floor) Unfortunately we had a water leak from a bathroom faucet, and ServPro decided to remove my engineered hardwood, along with the gypcrete underlayment in certain areas (they claim this was done to help the wooden subfloor to dry) We had a company come out and re-pour the gypcrete (ServPro removed about 80% of the gypcrete in my condo) Since the gypcrete was poured and the LVP planks were since installed, I noticed the LVP creaks, slightly pops at times when walking over the floor. I know the floor is not level, because the gypcrete is poured in, and even though it is supposed to self level, we still have some considerable high and low spots. The flooring company we used did not evaluate the floor evenness before installing the LVP. Now that the LVP is installed and the floor can at times be noisy, can you give me a idea of what options we may have to correct this. Thanks.
Take it all up and fix the floor and reinstall.
Waaat! Keep the hardwood. The imperfections are what makes it gorgeous!
To some people sure.
Not my choice
Hey Joe!
Awesome awesome channel.
I love you Joe.
All praise to Jesus, our Lord and savior, brother.
Thank you!
You know, When I think about Jesus separating the sheep and the goats, I think about him watching us all and saying for some, well this guy did well in the test of the world before. I know he will do well in my kingdom. Although my hope is the same for all, I sometimes look at various people and say, I really hope he is there. You are one of those people. I love your heart. Thank you as well for the nice instructional videos, and thank you for loving others enough to pray for them.
I really appreciate that! My greatest hope is to be there and I believe I will be. There are 3 things I know about heaven -
1) we will be surprised by who is there
2) we will be surprised by who is not there
3) we will be surprised that we made it
Amen and thanks for the information
Any time
thanks for the video man! kudos
YW
So glad I found this channel. I have a cheaply built house from the late 70's. Concrete subfloor downstairs, one area tiled that I'll be removing. The upstairs though is plywood. Really weak 1/2" plywood that moves when you walk and squeaks like crazy! I'm thinking I should beef it up and I've been thinking about adding 3/4" osb on top. Couple of questions if you'd be so kind: should I use the tongue and groove or just the kind you butt together? Should I glue and screw on top of the plywood, or just screw it down? Should I be screwing this layer into the joists? Thanks so much for all of the help on your videos!
We had hardwood in our foyer and it was a pain to keep dent free and smooth. No more sanding and refinishing for us with LVP.
Tho I know most this stuff, I love watching your videos... Just watching your vids I probably learned a lot more then when I worked with some Journeyman Floor layers out there... Keep up the good work
I appreciate that!
Great video mate, had the exact same issue with my 1968 house here in Adelaide
Thanks
Thanks for the comment!
So is it possible to just lay some long shims for say 3/4" difference or use some feather finish or thin set to create a long ramp? how much can vinyl floors be manipulated in that way??? i hope one of yall know some good info on this!!
Sometimes the problem with costumer is the budget of removing all the layers and get to the subfloor, because of the prices of materials. Also sometimes door casings have to be replaced too
l used to face this same issue with customers. So, I found out that if l honed my skills, delivered outstanding customer service, that in no time flat l was ONLY serving the most discriminating clients where prices was never EVER the issue. That made all the difference to the rest of my career.
Partner came into possession of a house by a legal technicality. We tore up the crappy vaneered floor. The kitchen is 1/4" higher than the living room and the plywood in the center of the living room is almost 1/2" raised.
I for got to tell you I'm installing 3/8 plywood in the living room and hallway.
Ok, so there will be no height difference then?
Can you put laminate over laminate? Awesome videos
Quick question. The house I bought is predominantly tile with carpet in the bedrooms. After I rip out the carpet what can I use to level the previously carpeted areas to the tile height so I can lay the luxury vinyl planks throughout the house. Oh the floor in the bedroom is concrete.....thanks in advance for your help 🙏
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Any time!
We are doing our whole house. We have to tear up carpet but we plan to just go over the linoleum in kitchen/dining room and bathrooms as well as front door area and laundry room. Will the floor show that slight difference if we go from the floor under carpet to linoleum?! Hope that makes sense.
We recently pulled out carpet in our home and found 1100 SF of particle board under it. It's in pretty good shape, minus a few pet stains. I plan on replacing those areas with fresh plywood and sealing the rest with a couple of coats of BIN primer. This will only be in the living, dining and bedrooms. In the wet areas we'll remove and replace the particle board. Do you think that will be sufficient? With the cost of plywood, I'm really hoping so.
Sounds good to me.
I am trying to build up floor in a diy nightmare home. There's the 3/4 subfloor, then 1/4 ply stapled on that. In the dining room another 3/4 ply screwed to that. How would I properly add another 3/4 ply to level the two rooms? Staples?
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Amen Bro!
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I have a question/situation that I would like you to address. I have a three-quarter inch subfloor raised foundation and I am putting on 8 mm engineered vinyl planks.. I am trying to match a three-quarter inch oak floor in height. So, I have to put down a spacer, I’m thinking 3/8 to half inch cc plug touch sanded plywood. Should I glue it and staple it or is stapling it enough?
How would we level a floor if there’s like a step down into a different room/area? We have a “den” that used to be part of a garage that’s completely open to our living room. How do we make it all one level?
So what if my house has concrete floor? I redid my bathroom it originally had vinyl sheet flooring. I recently put vinyl planks instead but it's still lower than my living room. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I don't want to have to remove the tiles in the whole living room
Do you have to use crown staples or will 18 gauge brads suffice?
Thank you for this video. It is very informative. I am using 3/8 underlayment over original 5/8 sub floor. Would you recommend using PL Premium to glue it down as well as crown staple?
I would recommend that you use a 1/2 inch instead. Yes, I would also glue it!
I am enjoying all of your videos and learn a lot. I put down a vinyl plank floor in the living room dining room. now I want to continue into the Kitchen. it is vinyl sheet over 1/4 underlay so it sticks up like 3/8 should we just rip it out? could we go over top? not sure of the best way to go about this area?
I would remove it. Watch this video - ruclips.net/video/RoijOYwg9lg/видео.html
In this video it shows baseboard hot water heater vents which I have in my rooms do you have a video showing how to deal with these style vents when adding the additional height of the flooring? I know this video is to show the raising of the floor levels and I see the underlayment being pushed under the bottom, do the covers need be detached from the wall and then reset once the floors are installed? I probably answered my own question but would like to know how it's dealt with professionally, your videos have inspired me to take on my own floor install for a kitchen/dining room that now has sheet laminate that I will be removing. Thanks!
Yes, you will need to take apart the vent and slide the subfloor and plank under and then attach the vent back to the wall.
I have 5/16 hard wood in livingroom. I removed the kitchen floor to the sub floor. I need to rise the kitchen floor 5/16 to meet the oak flooring. How do I get the same height as the hard wood
What happens if your plank flooring isn't a1/4 inch away from a wall
Is there anything I need to know if I’m going down to subfloor throughout house?
Can you use transition strips? I am having my dining room/kitchen living room the same vinyl plank flooring, but in the dining kitchen area the new flooring will go over our vinyl tile flooring but living room the flooring will be taken out before new flooring installation so that means there will be a little height difference between the rooms ... So can I put a transition strip to kinda separate the rooms? I have a open floor plan house and just would like to have same flooring in the main area
Yes, you can do that.
Are 18 gauge staples okay for plywood underlay?
My house was built in the 90s and we are about to install this flooring but in the kitchen where they put Lonolium but they put down a quarter inch plywood down to glue it to but it's under all the cabinets should I just cut around the cabinets and tear this up so the floor is all one height or should I install quarter inch plywood on the rest of the house where they had carpet and under the carpet is 3/4 thick plywood. Is this quarter inch plywood going to be a pain in the butt to get up?
Take it up and watch this video - ruclips.net/video/RoijOYwg9lg/видео.html
I love your videos and u are probably asked this all the time. When u install the lvp over the hardwood, do you have to worry about moisture? and if u do, how do u mitigate it?
Some say they have had issues with this, but I never have had an issue. And I live in northern Minnesota where we have extreme changes in temps and humidity. I would suggest using quiet walk pad - amzn.to/3AtMQ3p
Hey Joe, I’m doing a kitchen that’s in bad shape floor wise, I removed old glue down parquet wood flooring that was attached to old linoleum probably from 1930s, then major hump/ crown in the center of the kitchen, no chance of leveling because it would raise areas leading out of kitchen which is fairly level, have you ever used Sakrete trowel grade
No, I have not.
I'm replacing carpet in a section of my house that's going to become an office. I live on a concreate slab.
To match the existing height i'm going to need some kind of 1/4" plywood, but how do I secure it to the concrete?? I JUST pulled up the tac strips that were nailed down. Don't tell me I have to nail this down as well! 😭
Or could I glue it down instead?
Thanks!
Is there a drop at the door? I guess I am trying to understand why there is a 1/4 inch difference. No, I would not use wood on a concrete slab to achieve this, I would build the floor up with something else. Maybe you can share some pics with me at - joeletendre@sothatshowyoudothat.com
I want too have vinyl planking installed in the kitchen living room and hall way but my kitchen is 1'16 higher then my living room because when they installed the linoleum years ago the put the 3'8 sub floor on top of it and then then the new linoleum if you remove the top linoleum Can you still install the vinyl planking with that height difference? Thank you?
So to be clear, what will the height difference be??
I’m in the process of installing lvp in my kitchen and living room. The kitchen has vinyl with underlayment and the living room has vinyl plank.The kitchen floor is higher than the living room. Do you suggest I remove the vinyl in kitchen with the underlayment or do I build up the living room by adding the quarter inch underlayment and just install over the vinyl in the kitchen ?
It was built in 96 so I’m assuming I don’t have to worry about asbestos
Just found your channel, and I’m getting ready to put laminate flooring In my living room that connects to the kitchen! Now should I build the floor up using underlayment ? Cause the kitchen has vinyl flooring ! Would love some suggestions!! Thanks
Or just demo the kitchen.
Would I be able to lay plywood down on low pile carpet to install interlocking vinyl flooring on top without having to fasten the plywood through the carpet to the subfloor?
No. Do not do that.
We had vinyl flooring installed in house. The contractor hired a subcontractor do the job. The sub used to different workers to install the floor. On the second day, the sub brought in a different guy. This person did NOT lay down sub floor in a section that did have tile, but the bare foundation. Now there is a different height where there is tile and no tile and sub flooring. The vinyl is starting to sag. In addition, the vinyl goes all the to the under the new counter. Can this be repaired. We in the process of hiring an attorney. The owner of the company NEVER dropped by the house to see the floor and we haven't spoken with him.
Great video! What can I use for a 1/8 difference in height.? Thanks
How big of a doorway is it?
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Thanks for the quick reply. No doorway. Seperation between dinning room and kitchen. Dinner has hardwood and kitchen is linolium. Kitchen is 1/8 lower. Thanks
@@trevor5290 I have the exact same issue! I want to run lvp without a transition but need to build up about 100 square feet by 1/8"
I'm about to install laminate wood floor my question is can I use 1/4 inch hardie board instead of plywood, just cause I already have plenty of hardie board if possible what should I do? Only reason why I need to add some type of flooring is cause restroom floor is to high so.
You can, I am just not sure that is the way I would go.
Thank you for sharing this video. New Subbed Here! Happy I found your channel. Not sure if someone already asked. If I want to raise the tile floor about 1/4 lower than the hardwood floor can I also use plywood or cement board? If so, would you recommend using construction glue or concrete screws? Thanks 🙏
Use cement board with Thinset and concrete screws.
Any suggestions for cases where I'd need to build up on top of tile floor ?
How thick?
If I want to raise the height of concrete subfloor, can I do it using plywood (like how you showed)? One flooring store owner in my area told me that the plywood might not be stable if we just use adhesive and stick it to the subfloor, and it may lead to squeaking issues for floating floor. Is he correct? We live in Northern California which is mostly dry.
I would use cement board and attach it to the concrete using thin set.
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I remodeled my kitchen And removed old tile and than 1 layer of 3/4 in underlayment that was glued and nailed and had thinset all over it. I stripped it out to the original subfloor and that floor had glue and is kinda rough. I was going to go over the original subfloor with the new 3/4 T and G but they want $90 a sheet right now. I need about 20 sheets. Subfloor is just too rough and needs some leveling. I'm not sure if 1/4 in would be good enough for the floor deflection. The original floor is that old 5/8 T and G, the floor joist are 2x8. I feelike I need more to keep the floor from flexing.
Yes, you need at least another 1/2 inch sheet of plywood to get the proper strength.
Great video love the content! I have a question i do a big of flooring but i have never done a vinyl flooring! With that said what would you say is the best underlining for pergo 10mm with underlayment attached. Im going over hardwood as well ! Thank you in advance
Does Pergo state you can use additional underlayment?
@@sothatshowyoudothat yes that is the part were i dont wont to put anything crappy under . I was looking for something quiet with kids , pets just every day nice walk with all the options and talking with a few ppl u know that do flooring they say to use quite walk from hd but not sure if that is what a pro like you would use . Thanks again for your response. God bless any help would be greatly appreciated
I only use quiet walk!!!!
@@sothatshowyoudothat thank you so much ! Taking the time to reply. Much appreciated
I just bought a house and there is 2 different carpets between bedrooms have a short pile and living room having a long pile. And the kitchen, bathrooms and entry have the ugly beige square tiles. I was planning on ripping out tile, I wonder if I could build up the area where carpet is. But that is a large area so not sure
Are the subfloors different heights? or just the carpet?
@@sothatshowyoudothat Not sure yet. Going to rip up carpet and see what I am dealing with. It's built on a slab, so not sure how they laid the carpet.
Hi Joe any advice on how to tap end to end joints on laminate planks when the walls are angled at both ends of the room as the end tapping bar is only suitable for square ends . I would appreciate your advice
Is the floor already done?
@@sothatshowyoudothat no on going job i thought of using suction cups but the planks are textured i might try two sided tape next
I’ve been searching for answers through videos/comments but can’t seem to find it. I ripped out carpet in my spares but the rest of my house has brown ceramic tile directly over concrete, creating about a 1/2” difference. I want to build up my spares to level with the existing tile and do a seamless LVP throughout the house but am unsure on how to do that since wood isn’t recommended to go directly over concrete. I’ve seen basement subfloor videos but wasn’t sure if I’d need all of the extra layers or not (landscape fabric/6 mil plastic/delta fl etc etc) and don’t want to purchase the wrong sized underlayment if i do need additional layers in between and it then be above level. Can you give any insight on this? Thank you!
Can you share a drawing on my facebook page? mark the areas with tile and without. The link is below
Can you do this if the below surface is concrete? I am planning to put vinyl planks all over my house but the current situation is tile and carpet. I'll leave the tile and remove the carpet and will have exactly 1/4 height different between tile and concrete. Will have to use tapcon type of screws to hold the 1/4" plywood over concrete...
I would not use plywood to build up the floor over concrete. Why not demo the tile?
@@sothatshowyoudothat Because is way too big area. Is the 1st floor Kitchen, bathroom, hallway and foyer of a townhouse. And a small area with rug on living room/dining room. That area is way smaller than everything else.
Any other option you would consider to build up?
@@sothatshowyoudothat And thanks for replying, by the way. Blessings to you.
Would 1/4” tempered hardboard from Menards work as underlayment for 14mm laminate (includes 2mm backing) flooring ? I am trying to minimize the cost ! Already laid laminate in kitchen and dining room on top of the linoleum and am now moving on to the living room after ripping up carpet. Thank you for the videos and thank you for the prayers !!
I wouldn’t use the tempered hardboard. Have you seen what water does to it? If you watch Finish Carpentry TV, Richard uses it on his wall and ceiling projects. I would trust it there, but not on the flooring. Go to Lowe’s, they sell a 5mm (close to 1/4”) plywood that doesn’t delaminate, it has really good reviews. Better reviews than the similar product at Depot.
I’m installing Flooret Modin Ridgid LVP. Our kitchen and eating area is approximately 3/4” higher than our foyer and dining room (which is a big room!). I installed 1/2” QEP cork sheeting over top of the existing hardwood, then 5mm plywood on top of that. It’s a really sturdy subfloor now and meets the kitchen floor height perfectly. You can use duct tape to tape the plywood sheeting together after cutting and fitting. That’ll give it that tightness he was talking about. Then you can staple it in place. I cut the plywood on my Flexvolt Tablesaw and it turned out well.
Good stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Marty !! I will definitely check that out at Lowe’s.
Being that my laminate flooring is so thick, do I need to be highly concerned about laying the plywood tight with no gaps? I will be using screws to fasten it down. How should I space them ?
Thank you, I am very glad to have found your channel! I plan to replace the carpet in our living room with vinyl plank. This will create a long transition (15 ft) between the vinyl and the existing ceramic tile. I've watched many of your videos showing how to do such transitions with T-strips etc, but most of them are relatively short. My concern is that because the transition is quite long in my case, the end of the vinyl floor next to the ceramic tiles may become loose at some point, and wonder if I should use glue to keep the vinyl attached to the subfloor. Any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated.
I would.
@@sothatshowyoudothat Thank you!
@@canle7973 This is exactly my situation - want to replace carpet in living room with vinyl plank with the rest of my flooring being large white ceramic tile. Transition length - about 17 feet ! Thank you for asking the question. I don't fully understand about the glue. Do you just do the plank next to the ceramic tile or are you gluing the entire vinyl plank floor?
We have a concrete slab that is 3/4 inch lower than the engineered hardwood everywhere else. We bought plywood to go over the slab which brings it to height but not sure the best way to adhere it to the concrete or if there is a better option. Anyone have any advice?
I came across this on a project today… I want to raise subfloor 3/4” with plywood on concrete…did you end up getting an answer or how did you end up going about this issue?
I have a question. We live in a 80 year old house. We have a partial basement and rest crawl space. The floor where transisition happens is almost half inch up and near stairs there's slope. Before we bought this house 3 years back. Few spaces I found slope of quarter inch too. The floor is solid wood and we resurfaced it. But to match it with our first floor(we ripped the carpet out and someone installed the engineering floor). Now my wife wants to get the new flooring done on main floor. Any recommendations from expert like you would be much appreciated.
Because the house is older I would try to make the floors even by building up. It is going to be impossible to make an 80 year old house perfect. You have to improvise and be creative.
I want to install LVT on top of my hardwood, but my I don't want to add leveling cement on top on the uneven hardwood just in case in the future. How can I install LVT on uneven hardwood floor without destroying it?
It depends on how uneven it is?
What if the situation is exactly opposite- I have hardwood in my living room that transitioned to linoleum. I want to make it all hard wood (open concept, taking out the wall) but putting the hardwood on top of the current subfloor would make it about 1/2in higher than the exsisting hardwood floor in the living room. Is my only option to replace the subfloor with something thinner?
I would just demo the linoleum area and that should bring it level.
I started doing floors because I thought roofing was too hard. :/
Perhaps plumbing, water will always only flow in one direction, right? How complicated can it be?
Hey I'm replacing floor in my mobile home.. Den is higher that meets kitchen I'm middle of home. Last room help? What are my options? Thank you.
I would need more info. Why is the Den higher and how much higher?
It's where double wide meets together.. Less than a cm
How often are you dealing with customers not wanting to pay for build up or tearing out. I've been running in to customers that want to just gradually float the height difference. Just did a living room, dining room and hallway and kitchen. The kitchen was much higher but they didn't want to tear out the kitchen floor so I explained that's the proper way to do it but I'll do what they want. Floated almost a inch difference
I would not of done that
@@sothatshowyoudothat Customer ok with it so I had them sign off
Depends on state you live/work in... Years ago the "sign off" use to work... But now in court lawyers use the loophole of "you the professional installer" knew better but still went against the flooring Institute and laid it anyway... Beware sometime that job may come back and bite you.
I have this problem but with concrete. I need to slope one floor (room) to the other. Any ideas? Everywherr is level except going in to this one room. Been racking my brain for days about it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Share a drawing on my facebook page and I will see if I can help.
Hi!
I have the issue of subfloor screws not being flush. I’m going from carpet to lvp.
There are so many of these screws that are not flush on one part of the room and I don’t want them to present bumps in my lvp. What steps do I need to take?
sink them down farther
@@sothatshowyoudothat they won’t sink unfortunately.
I'm installing LVP FLOORING ...... from one room to the next....room was an add on over the years and the floor is 1¹/2 higher than other floor. Any suggestions on the transition?
That is tough. Is building that room up an option? When you get into transitions that significant, it is then time to pull out the tablesaw and get creative. Meaning make your own transition.
@@sothatshowyoudothat thanks for the reply. I actually watched your transition video after I sent reply/question last night. I'll be able to use an "overlapping stair nose " which I saw in your video...🙂 thanks.. your vids have drastically helped our DIY installation today.
I just replaced my subfloor and noticed that it is higher in the center of the floor. Should I be concerned about this when installing a vinyl planks . Your input would be much appreciated.
is there a significant hump or is it gradual
@@sothatshowyoudothat gradual it's right where the ductwork runs under my home. .