Along the lines of leveling the subflooring under strip oak flooring. Due to the fact that I didn’t keep all the weather off the subfloor that I would have liked I found a few of the subfloor pieces developed a cup like feature between the joists, but only in a few places and only between the joists at the end of the T&G 3/4″ plywood subfloor. The subfloor was screwed and glued. It’s contact to the engineered joists is solid. No squeaks and visual inspection looks solid. Yet I think the cupping is enough to show or be heard if not addressed before installing the strip flooring. Is there anyone out there who has worked with this type problem and taken care of it ?
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you mean cup, like up? like it swelled up? maybe the floor sub can run his sander once or twice over it. Then again, maybe he can't. Maybe just get a couple of sheets and do some repair.
no turn left unstoned
Standing on the floor, looking at the subfloor....
If it is 'cupped', it looks like a cup. Or bowl. It is concave from the side you are looking at. It looks like a ditch in the floor, between joists.
'Capped' or 'crowned' is when it looks to you like a little hill in the floor, between joists. It is bowed up. It is convex. Etc.
what you say,? bowl? yeah, bowl. Thanks for reminding me , mine needs a new screen.no turn left unstoned
Yes....
That is to say that the result of the weathering has made the downward bow on both sides of the joist on which the two subfloor pieces butt has made the ends bend upward in a crown.