How long would you expect this to last? 20 years? You didnt solve the initial issue. Not hating, i plan on remodeling my own home (when i get one and dont want to go in blind) thanks for your reply.

I did the same thing at my old house

this was very good, i really like the screw idea. so effective in its simplicity. 2 comments though, one, i would have set the scribe so that when you make the scribe cut, it comes out to the finished level. or if you do it the way you did, i would have run the straight edge against the fence and cut off the amount you required. good video though and good job

What did you do after you finished scribing everything to level? Did you set everything on 16" centers and just lay down a subfloor on top or what? Thanks for the response 5 years after the post 😄.

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Thank you so much for this video, I was going to pull up the floorboards and sister the joists but your way seems to be a lot easier! Appreciate it man! 👍

This was amazing to see. I'm 19 and I live in a house that constantly needs to be worked on and I love doing it and to see such a smart technique got me really inspired. It sounds corny, but it's true. I can't wait to try this out myself.

Wouldn't it be better to lay it down perpendicular to the current floor boards to avoid any potential creaking? Then, each new support is supported by multiple boards, not just one.

Nice way to get it done.

Very useful video, thank you

I thought I had all the tools needed for this, but Lowe’s doesn’t carry tubas. :/

This idea is amazing. I'm going use a combination of this and another one I saw for my house sine only 1/3 of the room is off level for me. Thank you!

This video may have just saved me a lot of headache. I've got a stucco home built in 1910 with very similar issues yours has, and I've been weighing my options as to how I'm going to level the floors before putting new flooring down. My fear with my home is if I were to adjust the beams from the basement, what it would affect in the rest of the home.

Brilliant idea, thanks for sharing

Awesome video. Thank you!!

I moved into a 1910 house last year and have been wracking my brain, trying to think of how to level the very sloping upstairs hallway to be both level itself and also level with the bathroom floor. I think this may well be the answer! It’s only a small area, so hopefully not a huge project. Question: will this method still allow easy access under the original floorboards? I have heating pipes under the floor and would like to maintain easy access to them. I guess as long as the pieces can be unscrewed it shouldn’t be a problem?

Damn, that looks like a good 1 1/2 to 2 inch.

Great idea using screws.

Thanks man

thnak you, i will be doing exactly this!

Great idea love it thank you

Doorways are.goimg.to be all messed up

Briliant

What a brilliant idea, kudos for engineering this. This method is head and shoulders above anything else I've seen on KZbin. Well done.

Good video, thank you.

Need you a laser buddy. Make that a different process, at least that 72" .

Man i can only agreed with the previous comment this is awesome i am about to get to do the same thing on my room, thank you so much for sharing this.

I see I am way long from posting to making a comment but just wanted to say, in the process of buying an old home and the floors are terrible. It has had some foundation repairs before and, like you, probably needs new footers and posts but each floor has shifted and sagged different amounts. You put a level under the joists and its pretty minor. The 2nd floor though is wavey and in one place you can see the closet has shifted (sagged) inches. Once I have it stripped down to studs I'll know for sure if there is more structure to repair but I'm thinking, aftet 160 years, its the same thing you had here.

Thank you for posting your video for this particular situation. You just saved my pocket book 5k.

THANK YOU

That was brilliant

Great video and well presented!

I would have removed the flooring and jacked the joists up to level the floors. Adding wood onto rotting wood just makes the issue worse long term.

That's exactly what I decided to do with the uneven floor in my house. Glad to see it's feasible.

Fantastic! But! I have pvc doors& frames in between the rooms,I need to raise the floor to... How do I work around that🤔

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!

I am amateur. If I were to approach this job, I would use a laser level gauge that can in one shot indicate the height of all walls, then run criss cross strings

This method, with the plywood on top and then any other flooring will clear a decent “lip” at the entry to the room won’t it? If so, how did you address the trip hazard?

Thank you for this! One thing that I like about this method, which I have not seen mentioned in the other comments: There are cases like mine where you need the floor to be a flat plane while not being exactly level. In my case, I need a slight slope (1 inch over 15 feet) to bridge from one room to another. I plan to use this screw technique to level over each joist, while allowing a slight drop from one to the next. The flatness can be checked with a straight edge. Hopefully the 3/4 new plywood wil lbe flat enough for my LVP. Any comments or tips wil be welcomed. Thanks again.

fixing problem not issue

How do you find the highest point in the rooms in order to follow the other highest points on the other rooms?

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Might have already said thank you but thank you just watched it again . I'll post a picture of our project when it's done

I just bought a old house and has uneven floors level so if you can help for estimate to fix that would great

Good thoughts

Really liked your video! Wouldn't the 2x4s add too much height to the existing floor on the higher end? I did the same thing recently to one of the rooms in my 1922 house, but I sistered the existing joists instead of adding angled 2x4s on top of the existing floor. kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6vXiWx7rpibj8k

Thanks again…..

That's the screwiest way to level a floor I've ever seen. Kudos. My first inclination would've been to sister the joists, but that would be a little more spendy...

Awesome and helpful video, and one thing came to my mind, that you don't even have to cut the board second time, you can take the height of the last screw (the one which is screwed the most) with a compass, transfer that height from the top of the board and take that point as the starting point for marking wirh compass and for first cut (of course you should start at the part with the biggest deviations , i.e. the part that you cut the most)

Look at you go. I dig it.