How To Hand Plane Uneven Floor Boards

Hold the boards together as they enter and exit the planer.

How to hand plane uneven floor boards.

When you are dealing with uneven floors one option that you have is to use self leveling compound. This compound can potentially be utilized on a concrete slab or a wood subfloor and it works well when you are dealing with dips in the floor. This process was fairly simple and straightforward the details are below. Choose the appropriate hand plane for your job.

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When the subfloor is reinstalled you ll have an even floor. It will be smooth in one direction and rough in the other. With some boards you might get tearout in both directions. Laying laminate over uneven floorboards.

To address this unique area of the floor we decided to remove the existing 5 8 inch osb plane the joist using a standard handheld planer and install new osb over the joists. Feed the smooth direction forward into the wood planer. A power planer makes quick work of planing away the high area but you can also plane it by hand with a manual planer. When you re planing the edges inspect the wide face.

On rough lumber you can feel the fibers by running your hand over the board. Learn how to use traditional woodworking hand tools to dimension your lumber. Essentially a hump on the floor was created by the excessively crowning joist. Vintage stanley no.

I have a bedroom which is half floorboards and half plywood sheets where it has been extended previously. The current flooring is thick pine plank in various widths from 6 to 8 inches. The longer the body of a plane the more accurately it will straighten wood as the length of the body allows the plane to bridge peaks and troughs in the wood s surface. Here are links to tools used in this video.

This old house general contractor tom silva demonstrates the proper way to use hand planes. The main defining characteristic of each type of hand plane is size. Hand planes come in several different varieties. Cut the boards to final length and you re ready to start your project.

I have very uneven floors.