How to replace thin wood flooring in old, uneven houses
Thin or non-refinishable wood flooring in older, settling homes cannot be easily sanded down, making a full replacement a massive undertaking. Homeowners often struggle to find a workable strategy for handling these floors, especially when dealing with uneven subfloors and multiple ongoing renovation projects.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
- 1Having a flooring technician screw down an underlayment and use glue-down LVP
- 2Tearing out old floors and putting down new plywood or OSB before laying LVP
- 3Pulling up thin hardwoods and installing tile
In their words
Unedited, most upvoted first, each linked to the thread it came from.
“I'm struggling to figure out the best strategy to replace this flooring.”source ↗
AHugeRedOnion · r/Flooring · 2 upvotes
Where this came up
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