Remember when you could just slap down a floor over any old subfloor?

Got a call for a simple vinyl plank job in a 70s house. The homeowner said the old floor was 'a bit wavy'. It was a disaster of three different subfloor patches and a 3/4 inch dip across 8 feet. What I thought was a two-day job turned into a full week of grinding, filling, and leveling before I could even think about the new floor. Anyone else run into a subfloor that was basically a topographical map?

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danielnelson1d ago

Oh man, that sounds like they built the floor over a speed bump.

kimmurphy1d ago

My 1950s house has a two-inch slope in the living room.

rowan9691d ago

My old apartment had a floor like that, you could lose a marble in the corner. It feels like half the houses from that era were just built on hope and plywood.