Can T Find Floor Joists Under Hardwood

Once the flooring such as hardwood is installed there is little reason to locate the joists unless you are fixing a squeak.

Can t find floor joists under hardwood.

I don t had accessibility to check under the sub flooring. You ll feel the joist if you hit it. They are put in specifically to hold up a subfloor that is then used as the. Log in or sign up to leave a comment log in sign up.

I can never understand why anyone would use 0 5 anything as sub floor decking i mean really the cost is not that much more and the benefit is huge. Can i alsi use a atud finder to the find floor joists under the floor. And sadly some hardwood floors were poorly nailed in the first place. Is there any way to find floor joists under hardwood floors.

A skilled carpenter will use a hammer to locate the floor joists by sound but you may not be able to do that. Forgive me if this question has already been asked and answered. I m about to close on a 23 year old home with hardwood flooring. So you may want to remove the shoe mold parallel to the hardwood floors on both opposite walls in each room with squeaky floors the shoe mold is the small molding at the joint of the floor and the baseboard.

Hell i built my shed floor with 1 t g and it sits on 12 8 concrete pilings with 4x4 beams and 12 oc 2x10 s over kill sure. They installed it correctly being perpendicular to the joists but it s parallel. I want to use some stop squeak screws that pull the subfloor tight to the joists then break off beneath the surface of the floor. If not you can fill the hole with a speck of putty.

I am having a difficult time locating the joists. Trying to fix squeaky hardwood floor in small hallway think joists run parallel to floorboards on sides near or under the walls on either side can t find any with stud finder that run at 90 degree. But i am never building another shed. My stud finder doesn t seem to work very well and i am losing my marbles drilling holes through carpeting and missing the joist.

I can t seem to find what i m looking for although i don t doubt it s somewhere here. Floor joists are the mainstay of any flooring that is in your home. They have several well engineered solutions to squeaking and sagging floors and it worth checking out. Although the process can be tricky once you re armed with a little knowledge about spacing the task is easy enough to accomplish.

How to find joists for laying hardwood floor. Sometimes you can get a good idea just by walking on the floor and concentrating on identifying the location of the squeaks.