How To Hand Plane Uneven Floor Boards

Laying laminate over uneven floorboards.

How to hand plane uneven floor boards. I have a similar problem. Choose the appropriate hand plane for your job. The main defining characteristic of each type of hand plane is size. See below for a shopping list tools and steps subscribe to t.

A power planer makes quick work of planing away the high area but you can also plane it by hand with a manual planer. The current flooring is thick pine plank in various widths from 6 to 8 inches. 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. Essentially a hump on the floor was created by the excessively crowning joist.

Here are links to tools used in this video. When the subfloor is reinstalled you ll have an even floor. This process was fairly simple and straightforward the details are below. Vintage stanley no.

On rough lumber you can feel the fibers by running your hand over the board. I have a bedroom which is half floorboards and half plywood sheets where it has been extended previously. 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. If the board is 1 1 2 in.

My husband wants to level it and put down red elm. It will be smooth in one direction and rough in the other. With some boards you might get tearout in both directions. I have very uneven floors.

This old house general contractor tom silva demonstrates the proper way to use hand planes. Cut the boards to final length and you re ready to start your project. Or thicker you can use the planer for this step. When you re planing the edges inspect the wide face.

When you are dealing with uneven floors one option that you have is to use self leveling compound. Hold the boards together as they enter and exit the planer. Learn how to use traditional woodworking hand tools to dimension your lumber. Hi i want to put laminate flooring in my living room where there are floorboards at the moment but the boards are uneven.

Feed the smooth direction forward into the wood planer.