Nail Through Floor Patch

I am installing a sheet vinyl flooring over a old plywood sub floor and i have also install a new 1 4 particle board over the old plywood sub floor with floor screws.

Nail through floor patch. I am installing a wood floor and have some areas of the plywood subfloor that need to be levelled prior to installation of the wood floor i have looked at a number of products such as mapei planipatch. What type of patch compound should i use if patching is needed. This area is a transition are between a great room and a kitchen that will all be covered with the new engineered flooring. You can find your floor thickness by either removing a floor register and measuring the floor where the duct comes through or by drilling a small hole in an out of the way corner and measuring with a nail.

I want to use a latex self leveling compound to fill the void. Use an underlayment floor leveler or floor patch product to fix low spots in a wood or concrete subfloor. The floor needs to be able to expand and contract with temperature changes and therefore must freely lay on the underlayment or subfloor. To remove a board tom looks for a telltale row of nailheads then uses a cat s paw to pry out each nail in the board.

As far as i can see none explicitly state that the wood flooring can be nailed down through the levelling compound into the subfloor. This old house general contractor tom silva eliminates a tripping hazard by replacing a broken board. The first question i have is can you nail the flooring into this compound. Whatever you use will most likely be stiff enough that you don t have to make the sub floor perfect just get it close.

Run additional boards parallel to the joists between the previous boards to. Henry floor leveler compound nail through i planned on using henry leveling compound up to 1 2 inch thick over an area about 3 feet wide by 8 feet long. Step 1 pull the nails photo by anthony tieuli. These square edged deck boards were face nailed to the joists.

Nailing the laminate flooring down would also leave marks on the flooring that would be very unappealing to the eyes. Do i need to patch the particle board seams and crews heads before applying the vinyl sheet glue. Use floor joist sized or slightly smaller and nail in place through the joists on either end into the board ends. A level floor helps make your tile laminate vinyl or hardwood flooring last longer and keep its finish.

Olehan jul 14 2007 08 32am 7 as far as the cats and dogs just nail their feet to th floor for a day or two.