How To Make A Hole On The Floor

The auto planner automatically considers the holes as exclusion areas where access points cannot not be placed.

How to make a hole on the floor. You could also use a circular saw with a masonry bit to cut out damaged concrete. However if the floor above does not have a hole or is the building s top floor the auto planner may place aps on the ceiling over of current floor s hole. All done from the top side. If possible make the bottom part of the hole slightly wider than the top part.

Floor filler is a type of portland cement mortar much like the material used to fill any voids in an existing floor. After that match it to the size of your plug cutter. Cutting a hole in the floor for a staircase may happen during new construction or while renovating an older home. Use the hole in floor platform tool to cut an opening in the floor platform.

Either process requires cutting away flooring. We removed an old chimney and that l. The waste pipe that fits through the hole in the floor is called a flange and it has two parts. First drill a starter hole with the masonry bit.

When converting an attic or basement to finished living space you may decide to replace a ladder with a stairway or to enlarge an existing stairway. Making the bottom part a little bigger helps lock the patch into the existing concrete. Although it s slower the advantage of the low tech method is that you can make any size hole without buying more tools. You can do this by holding the chisel diagonally to chip away at the bottom edges of the hole.

We show every step to repair a big hole in the subfloor. It s pretty easy when you know how. Once you ve got your plug cut out you just need to apply wood glue and use a mallet. Required tools for this project.

Examine the run of the floor joists that you exposed when you cut the hole in the subfloor panels. A pipe that connects to the waste line and a ring that gets bolted to the floor. Remove all floor panels in the room covering those joists as well as the nearest adjacent joists to both sides of the hole in the floor with the prybar and then set them aside for later use in covering the joists.