Questions tagged [floor]

For questions generally relating to the structure and construction of floors in buildings, including designs, materials, support mechanisms, load-bearing calculations, etc. For questions specifically about the top-layer covering of a floor (tile, carpet, hardwood) see the "flooring" tag.

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River rock shower floor grout cracking

Have river rock shower floor in the master bath. About a year ago noticed some cracks in the grout around the rocks. I contacted the home manufacturer and they advised to regrout over the existing ...
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Need recommendations for how to approach fireplace marble floor slab replacement

I have a green marble slab in the floor in front of my fireplace (appx. 60"x24") that I've hated since I moved into my condo. It's really the color - I dislike the green, and wish this were ...
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Options for a rear outlet toilet

I recently purchased a converted loft and would like to renovate the bathroom. The layout of the bathroom is a simple rectangle with a sink, toilet and shower across one wall. Most of the bathroom ...
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How to fix water damage on floor

how do I fix this space between wood and stone tile? Our fridge broke and water was on the floor overnight. This is how 5 months lost and the floor still looks funky. I have no idea if the rest dried ...
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Can I insulate main floorboards overhead hvac/ducts in basement?

My Hvac is in unfinished basement and part of it is crawl space which is rock. Built 1900. Is it okay to insulate my exposed floor boards of main house? Which is the ceiling of hvac/ducts/basement. No ...
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What is this slimy, orange shiny substance on my brick floor?

We just bought an old house (built late ‘70s), and noticed this substance all over the indoor brick floors. What is it?
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Carpet Installation on Concrete

I am looking to put carpet down in a small 11x19 room that has a uneven concrete floor. I am aware that this isn't the best idea and will eventually cause uneven wear, but this is the short term ...
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Do I need to place anything under the rubber mats to protect the tile from discoloration?

I'm setting up a small home gym and wanted to place some rubber mats (rolled or interlocking) on the tile. Do I need to place anything under the mats to protect the tile and grout from discoloration? ...
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How can I make this step the same level as the floor?

This might be the top of the foundation wall. I believe this doorway didn't exist originally, leads to an addition room. This step is a trip hazard. I got a flooring company quote for this tile but ...
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Levelling my old bathroom subfloor for tile. Threshold height Issue

So I have a 1945 house with a bathroom that has a sloping floor. It is out of level 7/8". I have taken the floor down to the original plank subfloor which is 3/4" thick and perpendicular to ...
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Fixed vertical space over concrete suspended floor - how to allocate between insulation depth vs. screed depth?

I have an extension being built on usual concrete beam & dense block over a ventilated void. The external extension area is 3 x 6m. Ventilation is via two 215x65 plastic airbricks and telescopic ...
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Fixing up beat up wide plank floors

My farmhouse is about 120 years old. There is a lot of carpet upstairs, which I would love to remove. I have pets and allergies and I just think carpets are gross. I can understand why someone decided ...
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patching crack in flagstone patio

My flagstone patio is developing cracks at the joints. I would like to know how to patch/seal them to avoid water from sipping excessively into the ground. I understand patching is not a water proof ...
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Grey ''fluffy' dust mixed with 'salt'

We moved in here a year ago. Since then we have been trying to get rid of problem with grey 'dust' mixed with 'salt'. This covers everything, the floor, the surfaces etc. No matter how often we clean ...
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How to build basic flooring on dirt of old barn stall?

The home I moved into has an outbuilding, built before the 90s and maybe as old as the main house (1962). It was a horse barn years ago, then storage and other unknown uses. It's concrete block, no ...
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Will my floor hold a wood-fired oven?

I want to add a wood-fired oven to my house. The room that I want to use was added on about 15 years ago and it's constructed on CMUs. The floor joists are 2x10 spanning 14' doubled up at 12" ...
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Adjust the height of landing to match the floor

In an earlier post (since closed), I asked this community how to improve the appearance of a plywood floor. From the responses, I concluded that the best thing to do was to lay a legitimate flooring ...
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How can I level an old kitchen?

I'm trying to level my old hardwood floor in my kitchen to install snap together vinyl on top. I sanded most of the high spots but I would like to use floor leveler to get it nicer. I sistered the ...
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How to remove this type of stain from marble/stone floor?

In reference to the photo, these are stains I spotted when looking directly under light right beside my bath mat. Its also very close to my toilet. I'm not sure if there stains due to heavy water or ...
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How do you level-out unlevel plywood subflooring?

On concrete floors you can pour self-leveling cement to fill valleys. How do you fill valleys on plywood sub-flooring?
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What's the best way to clean marbonite tiles

I have installed the white marbonite tiles floor tiles which is quite shiny or reflective. Recently painters used spray gun to make the door frames, doors shiny but as a result of that the tiles ...
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Seam between vinyl plank and hardwood

We want to replace the flooring in our kitchen, and would like to use click-lock vinyl planks for cost and ease of installation. However, I'm unsure how to transition between these and the adjacent ...
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12x12 shed with 2x4 subfloor frame on 4x4 skids

I am building a 12x12 shed on 4ea treated 4x4 skids with a subfloor using treated 2x4's on 16" centers, and 3/4 plywood floor. I want to use 2x4's to keep the shed to ground level lower. From ...
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Does this look like asbestos black mastic?

As I was lifting up a threshold strip / door bar under the bathroom door, I ended up damaging some tiles and lifting them, exposing what I believe might be asbestos black mastic. However, after ...
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How to fix splatter stains and stains from sunlight (or rug?) on this wood (or fake wood?) floor

I don't know how to tell whether a floor is hardwood, engineered wood, laminate, vinyl plank, vinyl tile, vinyl sheet, linoleum, bamboo, etc. So I don't know what type of floor this is in my home ...
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Floor paint stripping

OK, so I decided to strip a heavy black paint and what not on top of it from the hardwood floors in a 100+ year old house I purchased recently. To that end I purchased a $150 stripping tool ("...
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Remove white spots from luxury vinyl plank flooring

I just moved into an apartment where the floor needs some additional cleaning. The following are two pictures I took (click to enlarge): The floor is vinyl wood (Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring). I tried ...
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Help ! Weyroc / uneven floor needs levelling

we have had an extension built on the back of an old house and they fitted a floating floor with Weyroc top. We have bifold windows right across and want to put in flooring. Problem is that the floor ...
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Raising Sunken living room - Load concern

I want to raise the living room so it is level with the rest of the house. I have all the dimensions and how I will be doing it. However, I am concerned about the load as there is a basement below. ...
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integrity of unreinforced 6-inch concrete slab floor for a 15mx20mx1.8m pool

Our church built an in-ground pool with the following dimensions: 15m x 20m x 1.8m (roughly 540cum) in our retreat center. However, no reinforcing bars were added when a 6-inch thick floor slab was ...
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Garage drain isn't draining, how can I figure out where it ends?

My house is a 1977 ranch with double garage underneath and it has septic tanks. A round drain in the garage seems to go to the left as that's where the vacuum hose goes when I put it in the drain, but ...
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Wood filler between old and new hardwood strip flooring?

House was built in 1983 and had 2-3/4" strip flooring on most of the main floor. When we bought the house in Winter of 2020, we had the two remaining rooms stripped of carpet and had hardwoods to ...
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Why are the edges of our subfloor wet after rain, but the walls are completely dry?

Our house has a stucco exterior and a dirt crawlspace, part of the crawlspace is wet, but there isn't much water pooling down there. Where the water is pooling, the subfloor is completely dry. The ...
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How to fill a second-floor conversation pit?

House was built in 1961 and has a "conversation pit" on the second floor. It may have been added when the house was last sold in 1976, see photos. I'd keep it, except whoever installed it ...
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Replacing sub floor, that is under a concrete floor

House was built in the mid 60s. It's on piers with a craw space. While having it leveled, we discovered rot under the half bath. The water leak is fixed. However discovered the sub floor that needs ...
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Stacking LVT boards upstairs

I've just had a load of evocore LVT boards delivered (40 packs of 7 boards), which I dutifully dragged into my house. I can't find a weight for each pack, but they are pretty heavy. I took them ...
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Fix oil stain on wooden parquet floor

I placed a bag that had something in it that was leaking vegetable oil on a wooden floor, and I now need to fix the problem. I've tried contacting multiple professionals, but it seems this is too ...
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Old floor blending with new

We have two very different colors of floor, new vs old. We liked the rich color of the old wood when we applied wood conditioner. This same color can be achieved with red oak stain on the new, so ...
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Floor Weight Question for Aquarium

I am building a reef tank in my living room, it's in the corner of the house, and as you can see from the drawing, it is sitting on 5-floor joists. The house is less than 10 years old and the joists ...
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I'm using 2" EPS below grade insulation for radiant floor heating, Do I need a poly vapor barrier on top?

In addition to 2" of EPS do I need a poly in a radiant floor heating system
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I put caulking in between tiles that had grout already underneath it. What do I do?

My floor tiles had unsealed grout already in between the tiles. I went to Home Depot and bought a “sealant”, but it was actually caulking. I ended up putting caulk over top the unsealed grout in ...
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Waterproofing flat balcony over a shed

I have a kid's club house built over a shed part of it exposed as a balcony with flat floor no roof over it . The old floor was an OSB flooring badly damaged with water, so I replaced it with a new ...
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How to seal an OSB shed floor against pest, weather, and temperature?

This question follows from my previous question about leveling my OSB shed floor. I didn't realize until I received several comments and suggestions that said question actually has two focuses: How ...
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Filling first concrete floor with Autoclaved aerated concrete (AAC) brick to 3 feet height is good?

First concrete floor is with 500 sq.ft. area. Out of this, 200 sq.ft. is in projected form for about 3 feet height. So, we are planning to fill in with AAC blocks up to 3 feet height for the rest of ...
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How To Make Concrete Acid Stain For Floors

Recently I completed my concrete floor done inside my house. But that doesn't look good all the way. I don't want to do tiling, Because i feel that costly. So I planned to do acid staining so that ...
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How to fill a gap on the floor before laying vinyl

My bathroom has a ‘click lock’ laminate floor and I’m going to lay new vinyl over the top. Currently there are edging strips covering the gap between the laminate and the wall. To fit the new vinyl ...
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Sistering cantilevered floor joists

A stair and landing was incorrectly built without a drip edge over 4 cantilevered joists coming out of the building. Over the years, water got in and rotted the joists to just past the point where ...
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Fill gaps between vinyl floor

I installed this "click" vinyl, but there's one corner of my floor(concrete) that's uneven, because of that the vinyl doesn't click properly and there's a small gap. Can I just caulk this ...
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Converting old mechanics garages grease pit into a storm shelter

We’re wanting to convert an old mechanics grease pit into a storm shelter. What would be the best way to do. We were thinking concrete for a slab and a wooden door for entrance. What is the best way ...
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Fixing garden building floor

I have a "summer house" in the garden, it's been there years, but the floor has started to fail/rot - I managed to put my foot through it! I plan to remove the carpet tiles, treat the existing floor ...
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