Well in the old days the good carpenters laid the sub floor at a 45 degree angle. This supposedly helped brace the joists and the biggest reason is so they could lay the finish flooring, usually short oak, eight direction. With some of those short boards trying to hit a joist was definately a hit or miss deal. The nailing of the finish floor was done entirely into the subfloor. Many of those boards were too short to span the distance between joists. Anyway to your problem. Unless you put in another layer of plywood you have only the choise of laying at right angles to the subfloor flooring. First see if you can use some screws to pull some of the cupped boards down tighter. A couple of screws about a inch and a half apart and tighten alternatly can do wonders. Once you have "sucked" all of them down you can get you might hit the high points with a real coarse belt sander or a hand plane.. Voids under the finish floor "ain't" good. They ain't squeaky clean just squeaky Remember the felt paper over the sub floor and clean, clean, clean the subfloor of debries. Ron. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dan Rossi To: BlindHandyman@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2007 9:27 PM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Which way to lay?
OK, I know that all guidelines for laying wood floors say to run the boards perpendicular to the joists. That makes some sense sure. Having said that, I am laying this floor over an existing plank floor. The planks obviously run perpendicular to the joists. If I run my new floor perpendicular to the joists, IE parallel to the existing planks, it seems like there might be trouble in paradise. These planks aren't in the best condition and some are cupped a bit. I can imagine I would get a wavy effect if I run my boards parallel to the planks. Would running my boards perpendicular to the planks, IE parallel to the joists just be a horror of horrors with handyman demons cursing me and taking my hammer and saws away from me? -- Blue skies. Dan Rossi Carnegie Mellon University. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: (412) 268-9081 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday The Pod Cast address for the Cooking In The Dark Show is. http://www.gcast.com/u/cookingindark/main.xml Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the new archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/blindhandyman@yahoogroups.com/ For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/blindhandyman/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
