Levelling wooden floor

micks_address

Hi folks,
Last owners of house had a seriously heavy bed in the room upstairs. Result was sagged joists in floor. We put in a click floor a few years ago but there is a hollow area in the floor and spring in the click flooring..
Question is what's the easiest way of levelling the floor? If I lift the click floor is there any sort of self levelling compound I could put on top of the original floorboards and once dry re lay the click floor?
Cheers,
Mick

antiskeptic

micks_address wrote: »

Hi folks,
Last owners of house had a seriously heavy bed in the room upstairs. Result was sagged joists in floor. We put in a click floor a few years ago but there is a hollow area in the floor and spring in the click flooring..
Question is what's the easiest way of levelling the floor? If I lift the click floor is there any sort of self levelling compound I could put on top of the original floorboards and once dry re lay the click floor?
Cheers,
Mick

What about tile adhesive for wooden floors? It's obviously flexible enough.

Else a load of screws screwed into the dipped area, each left proud of the floor with final depth sorted by a level Depending on how heavily the area is traffiked / total area involved, you can add more or less

Else, if the area is quite large blobs of tek 7 with a square of thin plywood squished down on top (cut somewhat smaller than the hollow and levelled with reference to the surrounding floor

Else, if the lamnit has a tongue/groove effect, discreet use of a nail gun / fine panel pins shot in at angles (so that they don't spring back out) to hold the floor down into the hollow

Prenderb

Just consider whether the joists need to be looked at and assessed before you go adding extra weight on them by means of self-levelling compound...it's hard to imagine a bed being heavy enough to cause this sort of sagging unless joists were undersized?

The other thought is to see whether the flooring has raised in the centre (if it has expanded it will tend to rise) rather than the joists sagging if you know what I mean?

micks_address

Prenderb wrote: »

Just consider whether the joists need to be looked at and assessed before you go adding extra weight on them by means of self-levelling compound...it's hard to imagine a bed being heavy enough to cause this sort of sagging unless joists were undersized?

The other thought is to see whether the flooring has raised in the centre (if it has expanded it will tend to rise) rather than the joists sagging if you know what I mean?

It was a big sleigh bed.. I don't know..

fred funk }{

A bed won't cause a floor to sag unless there's something wrong with the joists to begin with.

micks_address

fred funk }{ wrote: »

A bed won't cause a floor to sag unless there's something wrong with the joists to begin with.

I'll lift the floor this week and check.. It may have been where the original floor boards were cut for access to plumbing and not relaid properly

e.r

A fibre based compound will do on floorboards.

Like posted already provided no structural issues

micks_address

e.r wrote: »

A fibre based compound will do on floorboards.

Like posted already provided no structural issues

Some investigation this morning,
Looks like joists are solid just plumber butchered floor at some stage



What's the best way to sort this out? Getting plumber in next week to sort existing pipes as they in a mess and fix rad.

How to fix floor?
Thanks
Mick

micks_address

Parky2

Would you consider whipping out those old boards and sheeting with 18mm plywood? A much neater job and you can fix up any plumbing and electrics while you are at it.

micks_address

Parky2 wrote: »

Would you consider whipping out those old boards and sheeting with 18mm plywood? A much neater job and you can fix up any plumbing and electrics while you are at it.

I'll consider anything. Will get plumbing sorted first then sort floor.

Only issue I'd have is the original boards would be running under wardrobe and I don't want to interfere with that.
Thanks
Mick

e.r

Fairly standard plumbing carpentry😂 Cross noggin/ supports and providing it's fairly stable your good to go. What type of flooring is going down ?

micks_address

e.r wrote: »

Fairly standard plumbing carpentry😂 Cross noggin/ supports and providing it's fairly stable your good to go. What type of flooring is going down ?

Laminate click flooring..

e.r

micks_address wrote: »

Laminate click flooring..

6mm ply and then some 5 or 7 mm fibre board should do the job.

navyddr713

Do what Parky2 said to do, short cuts only make more work in the long run...