#174: How to Level a Sagging Floor
The Fine Homebuilding Podcast
Fine Homebuilding Magazine
4.8 • 785 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
One podcast listener wonders if he should jack up his drooping joists or if he can just create a flat floor using tapered sleepers over the old subfloor.
On this week's show, Patrick, Matt, and Rob talk about rigid fiberglass insulation, saving energy with low-flow shower heads, and siding details on houses with garrison-style overhangs, before answering listeners' questions about leveling floor framing, bringing the grade up for an accessible entrance, and what books to read to become a better builder.
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| 0:41.0 | Tags. at daner.com. Sags about five inches from one side to the other. |
| 0:47.0 | It's sag so much that if you put a dresser against the wall that's two feet thick, |
| 0:52.5 | you've got to put an inch and a half shim underneath the front |
| 0:54.8 | legs in order for it to be sitting level. |
| 1:02.8 | Welcome to the Fine Home Building podcast, our weekly discussion of building, remodeling, and |
| 1:06.5 | design topics aimed at anybody who cares deeply about the craft and science of working on houses. |
| 1:11.9 | This is senior editor Patrick McComb. I'm joined by associate editor Matt Milham. Hello. |
| 1:17.4 | Rob Wadsack Digital Brain Manager. Hey there. And Jeff Rose, producer. Hey. You can email us your |
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| 1:35.3 | So Matt, we heard from a listener who mentioned, I guess we were having a discussion of rigid insulating materials. |
| 1:44.6 | I guess. I don't even remember this at all. |
| 1:46.4 | I don't either. So he could be making this up. |
| 1:48.8 | It's possible. I doubt it. |
| 1:50.7 | So we should read what he said. |
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