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Prepare Floor and Locate Utilities

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Building a Bonus Room + SOUNDPROOF WALLS || Concrete Slab House Reno (Ep.11)

What happens here

The first physical step involves carefully cutting out the existing laminated wood flooring along the planned footprint of the new wall. A multitool (oscillating tool) is used for precise cuts around existing baseboards, and a circular saw is used for longer, straight cuts in the open floor area. To avoid damaging radiant heating lines embedded in the concrete subfloor, a thermal imaging scanner (FLIR brand mentioned) is used to locate these lines before cutting. The cut sections of flooring are then removed.

Tools and materials

  • Circular Saw
  • Existing Flooring

What they say

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do is start cutting our flooring out notching our drywall and start doing our framing let's get to work [Music] i need to find out which way these trusses are going bingo they're going in the direction we want you're saying that we don't have to notch out drywall when it's non-load-bearing but i found for non-load-bearing walls so as long as you build a solid frame and connect it well once it's installed it won't crush the drywall and i don't think we need to you know be quicker if i just use a circular saw i was wondering yeah i'm gonna use a circular saw what am i doing i'm gonna do the corners though you guys remember i mentioned that we have radiant flooring so water lines that are heated running through the concrete i'm using a thermal imaging scanner i'm not seeing any fluctuation of color here in terms of heat so i think we should be good to go we're going to start doing the top plates

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