Hi,
I want to lay a hardwood floor over my existing concrete floor in my garage woodworking shop. The total area is 20′ x 23′ and there is a 3″ step in the concrete along the total width of the floor right in the middle. The new wood floor will cover the whole floor space so the resulting floor will no longer have a step. The existing concrete floor slopes by as much as and 1.5″ across the length and width and i want the new floor as level as possible. The new floor will have to stand up to equipment as heavy as 2000lbs. At this point I’m open to all suggestions as far as type of wood and constuction methods. I have all the equipment to mill my own flooring if required.
My main question is how to get the floor level, what materials do I use to do that and what is a good method.
Thanks,
Wayne
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Sleepers, scribed, notched, and shimmed to fit level at whatever elevation, then advantec 3/4" sheathing, then your hardwood finish floor.
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With that much difference in height, I'd wonder if the motion has stopped...
Hi Pete,The slab is 20 Y/O but the figure was an estimate, I'll put up some string line on the weekend and I'll know a little more.Piffin,Thanks for the reply, you gave me some terms to search on and get some more info and I came up with this thread. http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=61434.1I think alot of the info in that thread would be relevant to this circumstance, like the glueing etc. Anyway I'll read through that more thoroughly and may have a few questions.Thanks again,Wayne
Not my field of expertise, but isn't the garage supposed to be below floor level? Carbon Monoxixe, LVL's?