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Questions tagged [leveling]

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Filling in a sunken living room to level of other floors

My sunken living room floor is concrete slab surrounded on two sides by higher concrete slabs at the level of the rest of the house. The other wall is a brick fireplace hearth. The wall opposite that is a sheetrock exterior wall. It is an area about…
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How can I make a long wall perfectly level?

I am installing a short stone wall, made from these bricks. The wall is not tall, about 2.5' (0.8 m), but it is about 140' (45 m) in length. The wall needs to be strong to withstand flash floods, which can dump 1' (30 cm) of water in the back yard…
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How to laser-level close to a surface

Many self-leveling lasers, including my Bosch GCL 2-160, have a limitation when used to level a ceiling or a floor: the horizontal laser beam often cannot get within several inches of the ceiling or floor due to where the laser emerges from the…
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How can I shave a sheet of plywood into a wedge shim?

There is a hallway with an uneven floor tilt to one side due to foundation settling more on that side. The settling had since been permanently stabilised. The goal is to nearly level the hallway by shimming one side about 3/4 inch. A 36" wide sheet…
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Plastic shed base - How to level soil?

I am going to get a new shed but first I need the base. I have purchased a plastic grid base system, I have measured out the area and have cleared the turf on top. Now, I am coming a bit stuck on the best way to ensure that the ground is level…
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Is there a simple way to make these rough sawn, exposed joists level and flat?

I am renovating the kitchen in my 100+ year old American Four Square home. I was unfortunately not able to salvage the original longleaf pine flooring, so it has all been pulled up. I'm left with original rough sawn 2x8 joists (spanning about 13').…
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How to lift/raise/repair a segment of concrete slab?

I have an 8-year old concrete slab around my pool. One slab has sunk by about 2 inches on the short side. The slab measures about 6 feet by 3 feet by 4 inches. It rests against the pool structure on the long side. The opposite long side is grass.…
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How do I fix/fill this void left by previously tiling around a bathroom vanity

Previous home owners tiled around a vanity, then the vanity needed to come out. Now this void approximately one inch deep is left, and we want to fill it and retile so we can use a wider variety of vanities. How do we level the floor under the tile,…
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floor prep for LVP installation: need advice

I'm planning to float LVP (6.5mm) on 2nd store of our house (30+ years old). I'm currently working on a room that is 13' by 10'. I removed the carpet & padding, scraped and vacuumed. This is what it looks like... I can sand it down a little to…
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Why is my cottage wall bulging outwards?

Purchasing a cottage and trying to figure out how much work/money it'll be to repair an odd bulge in the wall. The south side wood wall is bulging out near the center. Although not clearly visible in the photos it is certainly visible in person.…
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Top of stairs wood tread to carpet transition level issue

I'm doing a DIY project converting my carpeted stairs to stained 1" think red oak treads and painted poplar risers. My issue is at the top of the stairs where I'm placing a narrow stair tread, this stair tread then transitions to carpet. This top…
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New Sprinkler Installation - Rototill/Level Before or After? Any other "Pre-Sprinkler" Preparation?

I have a (mostly) dirt and weeds backyard to which I am planning to add sprinkling and new sod next month. However, my locality requires (and I agree since the soil is poor) that I rototill in compost to prepare the soil before sod is installed. My…
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How to set a sole plate on a bumpy basement floor

I need to build a wall on a basement floor. The wall will need to support significant weight so I want it to be solid. The sole plate will be secured with concrete screws. The floor is a slab; it is bumpy and slightly sloped where the sole plate…
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How do I deal with falling floor when fitting a kitchen?

In UK we typically have a 15cm-17cm gap under melamine-faced chipboard kitchen units, then cover with a plinth clipped on to the feet. I'm putting in a kitchen and the floor drops a good inch over a 3 metre span. Should I put the units in parallel…
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Can I remove and replace blocking that's pushing up on subfloor, causing hump?

Over the summer (in humid Louisiana), we witnessed a hump emerge (about 0.5" from high point to the low point a few feet away) in our kitchen in our relatively new house. Very annoying. I went under the house, and I noticed that the part of the sill…
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