How to repair or replace a damaged section of subfloor.
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- Опубліковано 22 жов 2013
- A common problem with replacing subfloor is how to provide adequate support of the newly formed and installed flooring edges. I show the entire process from lay out and demolition to installing new flooring structures, 'blocking' and the new sub-flooring ready for carpet.
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Finally someone that knows how to fix a floor proper, been through a lot of videos, some ignoring the problem and just spray painting, some cutting and replacing with no added support, this guy gets it, he doesn’t want to have to fix it again.
This video helped me tremendously! First project on my own, restoring a Layton 1964. Thank you for ur help!!
What a great how- to video! Thanks for making it. I had my husband watch this. We have both been putting off such a repair job as that in our home. We bought a home not realizing the damage under the floor covering in front of the kitchen sink. With your video we have a little more confidence going into the unknown. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Excellent job!
Looks like great craftsman, I can see a lot of skill. That will definitely fix and support nicely. I'm looking to support my subfloor so will be bracing only with 2x4 going across, but the way you demonstrated in the video is the ideal way and very efficient.
The box idea is great. I would have added blocking but this is easier and adds structure to the repair.
Nice job. I just bought a large manufactured home with some compromised particle board subflooring from lack of a vapor barrier in a humid climate. Your video is very helpful and I will be making some boxes! I'll only replace what is needed, then install a vapor barrier and crawlspace fan.
About to rip up old carpet and padding and do exactly what you are doing in this video to repair floor damage, appreciate the step by step information. I'm dreading the job but hopefully this will make things a little easier.
Thank you for sharing this video, I gained the knowledge I needed in order to not be so intimidated by the repairs I need to do on my recent home purchase.... Thank you very much...
That is now the strongest part of that mobile home! Good repair.
Very nice, particularly the boxes. Thanks
WOW great job im getting ready to do the same thing but directly inside the front door of my single wide i recently purchased, you gave me the purfect video thanks 👍
Fix that leak! Fix that Floor. Profit$
Thank you for posting this vid. Whoever decided my manufactured home needed a furnace vent in the middle of the kitchen floor didn't cook much (it's a crumb catcher). I was worried about edge support for the patch, and your 'box' idea is brilliant. I may put rosin paper between the flooring and patch to ensure they don't squeak.
Great video! This will help me when I do mine! Thanks!!!
nice work! I like the box idea, its a strong fix and provides plenty of support for the new floor. will do this on my next project floor.
Thanks for the video! I have to repair the floors in the mobile we just inherited. I hadn't thought about boxes!
nice and tidy and snug, looks great
good work. nice cuts and good tools.
Sweet work! Thanks for sharing your informative video! very helpful!
i have a 4 by 4 foot area to replace for carpet install and you really clarified a great deal for me again, thanks
You're amazing!!! Great tips seen other vids, but no one so smart. God bless!
Nice.
These videos stay around long-time.
Thank you.
This is very helpful to me and I'm glad I ran across this and it is going to help with the work that I have to have done so thank you very much for posting this
IMO this is the easiest method for a homeowner to patch holes in the floor. Home Depot will rip the subfloor panels if you know your measurements. Patch the floor with the same material depth. It can vary in mobile homes. Take a piece or measure the floor at the heating grate. You can also use deck screws if you don't have a nail gun. Good video and you almost have a million views! Only 88k views to go!
Isn’t it better to use screws in the long run?
Good job and great demonstration. I have a soft spot in kitchen and this really showed me what to expect and gave me hope that it's not as bad of a situation as i was thinking. Thank you.
+ruby gravley Thanks for the nice words. It makes me happy to think that I have helped give hope and perhaps the encouragement to move forward.
That is all truly beautiful. It requires lots of tools and some years' practice in knowing how to use them correctly. Your floor looks like my trailer. I had full sheets of plywood installed to replace a damaged subfloor and the installers cut vent holes in them for the non-functional 1990 furnace. I didn't want vents. No one listens... I wanted to be able to reinstall the woodstove according to code but now I have plywood with holes covered in loose-laid vinyl with holes and need a custom-made hearth pad to cover the vent hole (and of course still have a horrid hole in the floor six feet away with a register in it to fall over.) It seems the easiest repair is "just" putting in two new sheets of plywood rather than cutting patches and making joins...but not listening to women from the beginning is, I suspect, more fun for the contractor...
Thanks for this video, it really helped me. I had to make this repair and I admit it took me most of the day between removing the damage, installing the box, picking up material and laying the plywood. I'm pretty handy but certainly not a pro. I would rate this degree of difficulty a 7 out of 10.
9:42 - 9:43 that was so satisfying to watch lol. Anyway, I have to do this exact thing. Problem is, one side of the plywood is buried underneath the wall 2x. So I'm just going to cut it like you did and build those boxes. Appreciate the vid!
Thorough with great detail! Just what I needed to see! Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
Great video Alex. Thank you for sharing your expertise.
Excellent job! I would love to learn how to do this for my own RV. Looks fantastic.
Give it a try.
Thank you so much for sharing this video . Im going to be working on my floors and you made it look simple again thank you
You guys are awesome 👌 👏 😎 after watching your videos 📹 it makes me feel more confident about doing it. I have a bad floor in my bedroom. It's a 1970s single wide trailer. I been needing it done for awhile 😩 now! But I've never layed flooring before. But I feel now I can do it myself!
That is awesome!
Have you finished it yet?
Great video, this is almost identical to the spot in my living room that I am about to fix. 👍
wow wish i could work with you a few times i would learn alot i have a weak spot around my toilet i love what you did making the boxes gave it a solid finish job.
Thank you for this Video, It helped me so much when fixing my subfloor repairs.
Happy to hear that.
Awesome love the box its much easier to build back the floor that way. Thank you
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Just bought a termite eaten mobile home. The termites are gone, but the floor needs to come up and the walls off. I want everything new. This video made it easy....going to buy two other homes: one in Costa Rica, one in Rep. de Panama. My termite eaten home was so cheap, I can live there for free and have two other places to live.
Thank you for making this video! This helped me perform a very sturdy repair!!
Very clever and practical problem solving, Alexander. Thanks very much for making this video - it helped me A LOT!
Excellent and straight forward explanation and instruction! Thank You ✌🏼️🐞
Sure.
Like the video and the work was great. Noticed the same thing on your first box that an additional 2X4 would be helpful for support. Thanks for the help.
That was awesome!!! Been struggling with 2 holes for 3 days now
It feels great to fix stuff.
Love the box idea, thanks.
I have the same straightedge. Great product, easy to store.
That's was best I saw yet..you make it look so easy!
Thanks!
Beautiful!
Excellent video! Thanks so much. Now I feel very confident that I can do this type of repair myself.
You can do it!
Your video help me a lot thanks :)
Great video. I am a newbie home improver and followed your video step by step, even starting and stopping it as I worked. Thank you so much!!!!!
Thank you for this vid. More informative than other videos on this topic. Very helpful.
I am glad you found it to be useful.
Great job and thank you for sharing
Good job Alex . Keep the good work.
Thanks
What about the out side walls of floor joist are rotten on the ends will the wall have support
That is really smart. I have never seen it done that way.
Alex your the BOSS!
Nice job on the video I personally replace all of the particleboard when I run into a situation like that just in case the floor gets wet again I don’t have to go out there and tear up my new floor just to repair that particleboard again
Seems like a reasonable strategy but even plywood is destroyed by water. I think there may be an issue with ones confidence to successfully repair leaks. I had the trailer park for 15 years and my floors all stood the test of time.
awesome! i have been looking on a lot of resources but couldn't find one about how to support the joists. I'm in a mobile home as well and I am in the process of replacing my bathroom subfloor and because of damage had to go to the next joists on both sides in the adjacent rooms.
Great video!!! I'm glad you didn't stop ...
Outstanding video, the best I've seen so far!!
Thanks!
Good idea, I like the box idea. Nice one mate.
Thanks, it works.
nice work mate. I really had a hard time nailing corners once. thanks for sharing
Thanks, getting all the corners and edges supported makes all the difference.
Very informative video. I have a double wide in Texas that I have to replace some of the floor in the master bathroom.Water leak damaged the blue treated plywood underneath and mold set in.Not really looking forward to it,as I'm not a carpenter,but we don't have the money to pay someone to do it. I'm expecting to have to use your box method if the floor joists are damaged.Thanks for posting.
Actually you should just plan on the boxing. It provides support and nail surfaces for all edges of the replacement flooring.
Nice work. Boxes nice have extra support.
Hey cool name
Solid work!
Thanks
hello in one of my upper floor bedrooms I want to put laminate, so i pulled the carpet to expose the subfloor, it is nailed down and very squeaky can I screw it down? And then near the window similar to your video there was water stains but the problem is that area of floor near the window slopes down almost an inch vs the rest of the floor. I was thinking to cut it out like you did and use these boxes you show but do I have to tie in the boxes to the structure on the window side? Just nail to the studs?
thank you, this was REALLY helpful. i was trying to contract this job out - uneven floor and water damage and getting absolute Bullsh*t responses and quotes (like tear out ENTIRE subfloor and shim with roofing tiles.)
Great work! This helps me a lot!!
Glad it helped!
good work
Huge help! Thanks so much!
good job man...very creative..i'm impressed.
I'm 15 and we are going the cheap route on repairing my great grandparents 1974 mobile home so far I've done a lot of the work watching videos like this and doing it like 99.9% right next
I'm going to be doing the bathroom under the toilet and bath tub need replacing and dont rly want to do it until I know how to do it right any tips?
Measure twice, cut once.
Excellent video! Congratulations! Now I have good idea how fix my sub-floor. Same damage. Blessings!
Thanks so much, very informative, easy to follow video.
Thank you. I am replacing carpet and found plywood edges not connected to the floor joists. NOW I know to build a set of boxes for them. Thank you, also, for showing that mistakes happen. ;)
I'm purchasing an 80's 2 bdr mobile home and am going to use this method to fix up a few spots in the floor. Hope mine is as easy as you made it look!
cortson1 be ready to cuss....a lot.. lol. I am doing one now. They glue the crap out of the subfloor to the joist. It wont just pry up as it did in this video.
Ive got a lot of this to do. Very helpful
Just wondering why you didn’t replace the insulation? It looked nasty and probably was wet at some point?
Good job amigo 🙂
excellent job
Appreciate
Your boxing method is perfect for my situation. Well done video thank you :)
That looks awesome. Thanks!
Thanks for making this helpful video, I will be sure to try this out!
Excellent video, I have just came across this problem and now I will use your solution. keep up the good work!
Ok now I'm feeling A LOT more confident!
Great!
I have to do my bathroom floor thanks for show how to I seen many other ways and I like this one 👍👍
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I own a house built in 1956 it has original hardwood floors currently covered by ugly carpet but my subfloor has uneven parts to it the floor joists are good I'm thinking or replacing the entire floor and using this method where the walls are at
i woulda personally changed the cruddy insulation or vacuumed out the old rotted bits of flooring for peace of mind, but hey maybe they where on a tight budget.. anyways legit job
great video, very detailed and good job. I hate those particle board floors they are just absolute rubbish. I have a job like this coming up of about 450 sq ft of the stuff to replace.
brilliant with the box inside a box for support!! thanks
Loved the idea of the boxes, I will be using them, thank you for sharing
That is cool, I think you will like it.
100% Excellent!!!
Nice job, period!
Thx for the great video
Thanks man. Exactly what I was looking for.
Great!
Outstanding
Wish you could come fix my floor. Great job!
Nice job! Thank you!
What kind of wood did you use ?
Thank you! The guys who I thought of hiring were only going to replace the plywood, which seemed wrong to me. so glad I saw this video. I'll just do it myself
eileen lajeunesse
I know you can do it!
Exactly what I needed. Thank you!