Floor Leveling

Poorly leveled floors will make laminate and engineered flooring feel wobbly; this can lead to easy breakage of the boards. Make sure that there is no unevenness in any parts of a room before installing these types of flooring! Floor leveling is key to creating nice solid foundations for your laminate or hardwood floors!

If the subfloor is wavy and unleveled, hardwood flooring will be forced to bend and alter its shape. This causes planks to warp, split apart from each other with bumps in high areas while forming a soft spongy effect at low ones. Tiles do not line up edge-to-edge causing them to crack or break completely into pieces because of their lack of elasticity. Also, baseboards have gaps due to an uneven subfloor surface as well when installed on top of it making for visible seams along walls where they meet the tiles that don't align properly.

When leveling a floor, it can be significantly easier to work with wood as opposed to concrete. When applying the leveling compound to low spots or grinding down high spots, in either case, then one must ensure that fasteners for holding down planks do not cause cracks in the compound when used on cementitious-based products. If you encounter leveling issues during installation of your new flooring, plywood and construction paper are a great solution for the problem.

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