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Posted by evodawg on May 4, 2008, 4:11 pm
darren.grimsley@gmail.com wrote:
> I got such great help on my saw question a few weeks ago that I
> thought I'd come back to you with another one.
>
> Before we put the wood floor in I'm raising the subfloor by 1/2" to
> match with the tile that the wood butts up to. Most of the room has
> gone fine, but now I'm down to the last part at the bottom of the
> stairs. The problem is that the old subfloor curves down toward the
> wall a bit. At the deepest part it's about half an inch.
>
> I've posted a few pictures here
> http://picasaweb.google.com/darren.grimsley/Subfloor
>
>
> What should I do about this? Shims?
>
> Also, the carpet guy left a little bit of overlap carpet where the
> wood will transition and will come back and finish it once the wood
> floor is in. He left about 3 inches without pad and stapled it down,
> should I pull the staples and run the wood right up to the pad?
>
> That is the number 2 picture from the link.
>
> Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> THanks,
> Darren
From the looks of those pictures you have some real problems. Why is the
floor that far out? Whats your floor joists look like? I would be more
worried whats going on underneath this mess. Shims yes but you need to
figure what's causing all this.
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