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Install in Bedrooms and Address Uneven Subfloor

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Watch Out For This When Redoing Floors In an Old House

What happens here

The presenter continues installing the flooring across the entire main living area and begins in the bedrooms. He reflects on the physical demands of flooring installation, comparing it to an all-day leg workout due to constant kneeling and standing. In one of the bedrooms, he encounters a significantly uneven subfloor area (likely due to water damage or old subfloor degradation) which causes severe bouncing and unevenness. To address this, he uses a power planer to meticulously level the affected area, creating sawdust. He hopes there are no nails in the area that could damage the planer's blades.

Goal: Complete flooring installation in bedrooms, handling any further subfloor irregularities.

Tools and materials

  • Flooring Cutter
  • Level
  • Power Planer Ryobi
  • COREtec Pro Series Vinyl Planks COREtec

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[Music] installing [Applause] all right so this living room I got it done in about 2 and 1 half 3 hours um it is an easier product to install than laminate uh just because you're not tinkering around breaking off edges so this is a little bit more solid put together I do like how it's flexible so it's easy to kind of get both sides in and I'm slowly getting the hang of it in terms of is it faster than traditional laminate I'm getting the hang of it because there's a a strategic way that you can slide the tongue grof together and then it just snaps in the video you probably saw me using my palm to knock it in for the most part that worked but there's definitely this little sweet spot that you can just snap it in place this is done the strategy is going to be to start working down my hallway into the rest of the bedrooms let's [Music] go all right day two today getting back to the house work on the flooring I got exhausted I really got exhausted yesterday uh and doesn't matter how easy the technology is behind the floors you know whether they come up with the easy snap-in locks whatever you're still getting up and down so you're basically doing all day squats all day lunges uh it really takes a a whole leg workout and your back is aching so I really got to give it up to all the professional flooring guys cuz if you got to do this day after day after day um man that takes a toll in your body so goal for today is to finish off the two bedrooms save the primary bedroom for tomorrow and uh we should be slowly chipping away at the [Music] sucker first room done we're going in the second room and we got a problem um well let me show you see this right here right there well look how fun this thing is I don't know what's going on there it could be water damage it maybe pre-existing flooring that was there uh who knows it's been kind of hodg Podge together so what I'm going to do is I'm going to use my uh automated power plane ER hand planer and try to take it down my only fingers my only hope fingers crossed that's what I meant to say damn I'm tired is that there's no Nails in there because if there's Nails in there my planer is going to get shot I'm going to have to get new blades for it so only one way to find out let's [Music] go well that went better than I thought that it would check this out we're looking pretty so I guess what that was is uh just some water that maybe got absorbed as you can see it's kind of a station right there not too bad it looked very…

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