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Spent 20 minutes fixing a dip in a floor I should have checked first
Last week I was installing LVP in a living room in an older house in Cincinnati. Got halfway through the second row and noticed a low spot that was causing the planks to rock. Had to pull up 6 rows, mix up some leveler, and wait for it to dry before continuing. That little dip cost me almost an hour of worktime. Anyone else have a routine for checking subfloors before you start that keeps this from happening?
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rowanjenkins2mo ago
After the same headache, I started dragging a straightedge across the entire floor before laying anything down. Marking the dips with a pencil as I go is way faster than pulling up planks later. Honestly, a little pre-check has saved me way more time than skipping it ever did.
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zara_miller27d ago
Oh man, that is such a smart trick but I feel your pain on missing one anyway! It's crazy how those dips can hide right where you least expect them. That extra ten minutes of double checking sounds totally worth it to avoid the headache of pulling things back up.
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jordanr892mo ago
Funny enough, I do the exact same thing on every job now after a similar screw up in my own house. Crawled around with a 6-foot level and a marker, circled every low spot on the subfloor before I even unboxed the first plank. Still managed to miss one once because the dip was right where the level's end sat. Now I check every four feet in both directions. Takes an extra 10 minutes but saves a lot of cussing later.
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