Laying Subfloor Tips

hi guys and welcome to today's task for today's task we are going to be laying the subfloor in this room and I'm gonna show you all the little steps on how to do that but first I want to give you an update on where we are with the house project so we have gotten all of the hard plumbing put into this master bathroom already which is why we already subfloor in down all of our windows have been cut up for egress and if you do not check out that video or video I will link it down below but that prep work is done and so now we are ready to start framing this basement in the next coming weeks as well so stay tuned for those videos that's gonna be awesome but let's get back to today's task one exciting update for today's task is that these hats are now available to purchase I do have a limited quantity so if you want to purchase one they are $35 which does include shipping to your home just email my today's tasks at gmail.com and I'll send them to you they are first come first serve so whoever gets to them first gets them and I will let you know our floorboards are gonna cover the floor from the back of the addition to this home all the way into the original section of this home we want to make sure this part of the floor is level when I took that up so that we could span this gap a little bit better and not have a blunt edge where they all end it and in order to do that I had to really kind of map out where these need to start and where they need to sit normally when you're putting floorboards down on top of floor joists you just go to a corner of the house make sure it's square and then start laying it and go from there and you just work it back and forth all the way but we couldn't do it that way so I really want to make sure if full board spans this gap at each spot we have probably three boards that will go there and I want as much coverage as possible so that's why we're gonna work our way into that corner and then we'll work our way out from there if that ends up being a half board that's okay in order to lay floor boards you have to be laying them on floor joists you can't just slap them up to anything or else they won't stick because there's nothing to nail in so they've got to go into your floor joist your floor joists are going to be set up as a 16 on center most likely it's probably the most common that you'll find so I'm just gonna kind of teach you that but your boards are designated to show that if you take your bedroom tape [Music] 32 on Center at 48 a 64 80 and 96 these green markers are to tell you where your floor joists are underneath you so you don't have as much guesswork now that's most likely how you will do that if you've got good construction this addition was put on a long time ago I don't think anything was done too much to code I mean it was but it wasn't but they weren't square they weren't true about things they really just kind of slapped it together because of it my floor joists do this so I'm gonna have to just kind of follow them and snake them that is what it is but if you're putting in new construction or remodeling something most likely the floor joists are stacked really really well so you'll just follow these marker guides and make sure they land on a floor joist now you are gonna have an odd length somewhere most houses aren't built with perfectly square dimensions and landing on eight foot increments they could end up with small increments somewhere else so you will have to rip one down or cut one down or do whatever to make it fit you have to make sure when you put your floorboards down that they are straddling this floor joist now I've given myself a wider platform here so it makes it really really easy but I still want to try and sink my nails into the original floor joist which is down here so you always have to make your cuts whatever they may be land on a joist and another tip they will always run perpendicular the joists will want to wobble and move and do whatever if you just leave them but when you put these boards on perpendicular to them that's 8 feet that you've just connected and kind of bound together it locks them in place and holds them steady and if you've ever been in a house that's just been framed but there's no outside sheeting on you can take the walls and almost rack them back and forth if the outside sheathing that's spanning these floor joists and tying them together that gets that racking really really strong and it really stabilizes everything so when you do it you've got to make sure you're doing it perpendicular to it if you're just doing a small Pat's job or something it's not gonna really matter but if you're putting a full sheet down you need to make sure it's going perpendicular to it to these boards technically when I come into here we're not going perpendicular to the joists they'll actually be running parallel with them but because I already have flooring underneath that's running perpendicular it's just gonna kind of create that weave effect and I think it'll really bind everything together in here I'm not so much worried I'm just trying to bring the level of the floor up but in here I'm trying to secure strengthen and enforce a good solid subfloor I know I'm gonna start with this board right here and we're good that way so I want to start laying this board here just because I feel like that's gonna take care of my issues [Music] so we take a board before I drop it down I want to shove it into that back corner where it goes and then drop it make sure it's sitting well and square square with the next one I'm gonna give you a little tool tip if you look right here there are multiple nails and then there's a single nail I have stuff on the single nail setting so I'm gonna change it to multiple nails so little nail faster this gun has a built-in safety clip that you can probably just get rid of but I keep it just so that I keep note because once you adjust that once you change that adjustment this gun will start firing completely different and so you need to really be aware of that it's a little it's a little more vulnerable and some of the safety features have just been bypassed it's not unsafe you just have to be aware of how to use it now in this mode [Music] this board not going anywhere sounds better one of the things I really recommend is that ass you put each board down just kind of look over and see if there's any nails that are sitting a little bit proud now is the best time to go back over it now we'll move on to our next board [Music] [Music] [Music] so you can hear my air compressor running really really hard right now some of my nails are sticking up means it's not regenerating fast enough I'm probably working a little bit too fast for it or I need to go up the air pressure on that air compressor so it can handle the volume that I'm demanding it to give me when to set this next board in place and there is a huge difference in height between these two joists and this one this one just set a little bit high for some reason I think this would for some reason is a little bit thicker these two by threes aren't exactly cut great they're kind of a cheaper end wood but they're perfect for we need and so you can get some fluctuations with them so I'm having to whittle just a little bit of this down I had to think a quarter-inch I'm gonna take just a little bit more and Whittle it down I'll show you why I always carry the chisel in my tool belt is because sometimes you just need to get into areas knock them off and a chisel is perfect [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so if you've got a pork that's not quite enough but you need to get it over you'd have to be careful you can put a board just against that back end because it'll sit flat on the groove this is the tongue and there's actually a protrusion here that locks into the next four so we'll show you that in a second but I got to be really careful not to damage this one thing to note when you're nailing on the joint I always try to angle in to the joist a little bit not just straight down my next board is gonna go over top of this vent and I really don't want to lose track of it or try to find it later or just forget about it all together and lose some of my circulation for air so a good time now is to market I want to grab my pencil have a measuring tape and I'm gonna take my measuring tape and put it underneath to where it's at that's at three inches exactly so it's three inches exactly I know it comes to there and I know how wide it is obviously so I take my square line it up [Music] I'll show you how we cut that out I want to cut on the outside of all these lines just to give myself that extra a little bit of space I'll show you how to make those plunge cuts so you're gonna take your guard and lift it up now I'm doing this with knowledge that my blade is all the way down and I'm gonna set my blade on it when I turn it on turn it on I'll do the same here and now our vents open we can see it we can form right up to it and because I know once the next board comes on I'm not gonna be able to get my measuring tape down in there as easy and measure the way I did that small one I'm gonna come out to the end of it give myself one foot from this dimension so I'm gonna draw a narrow line and twelve twelve inches vent and then I'll follow this exact same outline on the width now we're going to set this next board in place and I want to start here for two reasons I want to make sure I'm cover into this merge the best I possibly can also I want to start here because I know I'm to be covering a seam for the board the V already put down and I think I like where that lines up it covers our bridge right there it also ends up on a stud and that's what we needed to end up you always want to make sure you're hitting on a joist if not you're gonna have to cut to it you can never leave a board unsupported in between a joist it will be weak it will break later and it will be a slump in your floor I mean you'll step through it we're going to tap it into place until we interlock this entire thing I really wanted to take this wood and just flip it up and then glue underneath and then just drop it back down so I built me a little kind of jig and I'll be able to just move that along as I go and put the board's against it and then drop them back over I thought it's a cool idea and it works really good I got if anybody's doing like that maybe Tom Silva this bouncy anything you can do to make your life okay we are running into a bit of a problem here this board kind of lines up almost all the way with the floor joists there's a little bit hang there but not a ton so I really could use that but I don't really want to and that board over Ang's but at la I knew I'd have to cut a certain point of this off back there but I'm just gonna do it right here instead and I'm gonna show you guys a cool trick first grab your scrap piece of wood and line it up square with the existing piece of wood that it's gone so I know it's gonna be square there and I don't want it to go anywhere when I cut it so I'm going to take it and screw it down in a couple spots so that it stays strong when we're done now I've gone ahead and set the depth of my saw to double the thickness of this this is 3/4 inch so I went to inch and a half and I gave it just a little bit extra as well it'll cut into that bottom board but that won't hurt anything now I need to give myself good square lines and I'm gonna go straight down the center of this board rest and we'll cut right on that one I only need to fill a gap between this joist and this joist so I really only need to cut here but I don't like the idea of that small piece just being hung on those edges I can make it a little bit stronger right here and this will give me a better piece to work with span other joists later on so I'm going to come back one more joist [Applause] here's the critical thing you have to cut this in order if I cut this one first this is gonna be loosey-goosey I've just undid everything so I want to work from this way back so we'll cut this first and just like before I showed you do a plunge cut look it in that's crap this is our good piece and so does that little piece there you go that's why you can cut in an easy piece to fit perfectly each time is just cut each piece at the same time that way you're not trying to guess measurements or whatnot it'll be square and perfect so whatever you're putting it into [Music] I'm taking the time right now to go through and look at any nails that are protruding up if they're sitting just a little bit proud they'll disrupt the hardwood floors when they go down but other than that that is how you'll a sub horn that's how you align it with your joists and that's how you stagger the joints so that they don't wind up so it makes the strongest woven canvas on top of your joist possible I think it's a pretty simple project it is time-consuming it is very labor some if it's just you doing it if there's two people that'll speed up the process a lot more but at the end of the day it's doable you just might have to use a little ingenuity and create your own little like second set of hands to lean those boards against I will say one thing that I didn't really show in the video was my air compressor that I bought probably about six or seven years ago is meant for kind of finished frame work it's not really meant for framing and for aggressive nailing and so it really had a hard time keeping up and at one point it was keeping the nails really really high up so I did splurge I did go buy a bigger air compressor because we got a lot more framing to do on this house and hopefully framing to do on projects to come so I upgraded mine to a higher capacity I will go over the details of that in another video so look forward to that if you guys liked today's video give it a thumbs up if you're new to the channel subscribe and if you want to see more of the house and stay up to date on all of the projects we're working on hit that notification bell and we'll see you guys next time bye guys hi guys and welcome to today's task hi guys and welcome hi guys we have finally an excite and exciting one exciting feature and tip number two - hey well I appreciate your return my phone calls we actually found that different RV space and booked them already but thank you so much for getting back with me me that wasn't recording [Music]

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Length: 17min 41sec (1061 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 26 2020