I been watching they craftsmanship and genuine work for the pass 20 years and over150 years combined experience of those professional that said it all.
Two things that don’t apply to home builders because of cost and time. If installing 3/4 inch hardwood flooring on top, I wouldn’t use particle board as the sub floor but would use 3/4 inch plywood sub flooring. Particle board won’t hold the cleats or staples used by flooring installers. Second, id screw the sub floor down instead of shooting nails in. Screws don’t back out of the sub floor like nails do.
gluing into the tongue and groove i dont see too many people doing, im sure its a good detail but nowadays a lot of people just use high strength foam adhesive to spray on the joist and let ring nails do the rest of the work
Kevin do u mind if I ask y it is that u find it unfortunate to b above ground? Did someone in ur family die or do u have a terminal illness that u r suffering from at the moment?
Kevin 50 is so young..My father passed away at 49 and I miss him so much, I wish he had the desire to keep on with life and watch me grow up to b who I am today. He told me it was all about quality not quantity but in the meantime while he was thinking all of this he left me to suffer as I struggled to grow up without any real parent figure in my life from the age of 12. I felt he was to young to b so selfish because he had so many ppl in his life who loved him so very much. He left us all heartbroken.
Engineered joists are far superior over dimensional lumber. You can span greater distances with the engineered joists and they have bigger top and bottom cords.
They just said to have the joist between your legs/feet when nailing. Notice the guy just before the explanation is nailing the sub flooring nothing like that. Just hit and miss.
Houses (subfloor, roof and exterior sheathing, and now joists) are now made of wood chips - how efficient and cost effective. How long will they last, especially if they come into contact with water? Also our walls are made of paper (drywall).
The expansion and contraction of the wood riding up and down the nail is what causes squeaks we need to start using screws to lady subfloors. Putting houses together faster with nails is not the way to go
Power Wagon mainly homes with a second floor has squeaky floors. this old house covered this year’s back on why it squeaks. the fix is to run screws through the floor.
Apparently OSB and similar engineered wood products hold up well against termites because the glue/cement used to hold them together makes them a poor source of cellulose as far as termites are concerned.
from my very novice knowledge of watching hours and hours of TOH and renovation videos - Ditra is an uncoupling membrane, which means, as the name says, it un-couples one surface from another. Ditra was made to be put between subfloors of wooden material and hard surfaces like tiles so that when wood goes through its seasonal expansion/contraction, it does not harm the solid joints between the tiles laid on top of it.
0:39 😂 I don’t really like that. Because what happens when it gets wet? We all know what happens to plywood when it gets wet over a long period of time. At least with a 2 x 8 or 2 x 6 it is solid…
OSB is not rated for horizontal use. Also a very bad choice if there is any chance it would see any moisture or humidity at all. Code would be 3/4 hardwood plywood.
There are many half-truths and incorrect statements in the comments. In the U.S., OSB is okay for the floor, that's why there are two spans given on the material. Same as for plywood. The shortest is flooring, the longer span rating is for roofing. Commodity grade OSB will most definitely swell, even if it didn't rain during construction. You will see that happening to roof decks long after construction. Humidity in the attic will swell the edges. HOWEVER, Advantec and Georgia Pacific both have a premium grade of OSB subfloor that have 500 day No-Sand guarantees. G.P. brand is DryMax. I-joist OSB webs have an extra dose of resin/glue in its web stock, as do the super premium OSB subfloors. If anyone doubts the 500 day guarantee, take home a scrap (or buy a sheet) and leave it your back yard.
OSB has its places, but not like this... Anyone who knows how OBS behaves structurally in various scenarios should be shaking their heads in that idea. I don't know what has been done in the past decades in these videos, but one thing that I think has changed in the last year or so is that lots of designs and installations they are showing are "one-time-only" kind setups that doesn't allow easy repairs and access IF required in the future. Like that adhesive idea for the subflooring, that when you need to get access in there, you just don't have nails there but you have all glued up as well. While in old school methods you used materials that dampened sounds but kept things so you could in case if required to open up things without too much damaging places. It must be something to do with the latest trends for "Eco-Friendly" laws and all ideas, how anything that can be even considered "dangerous", "poisonous" or "damaging the mother earth or people" etc in any phase of the manufacturing, they are removed. Like now we have house paints for exterior walls and roofs that can't withstand weather, wears off in few years and you need to make all again less than decade or two. Previously you had paints that didn't peel off for decades, like 30-50 years and it was like a new compared to todays, but it yet was made with just one step or process that made "Green-People" unhappy. These days lots of construction workers don't anymore think anything about what should be needed to be done after it is done. So servicing and maintenance becomes just very difficult or impossible.
This is advanteck it is used in every house now from multimillion to 2 bedroom it gives you the flattest strongest floor hands down and water doesn’t permeate it like cheap noname osb
@@x-raymind7778 The biggest problem is a contractor or DIY person will go to a discount store and purchase it because of the price. Same type material but not the good brand.
So many things I see wrong in this video. Basically trying to do cliff notes on how to build a new ‘builder grade’ house. (Builder grade is the lowest grade you can go)
The problem with these people on This Old House is they don't do anything for anybody south of Massachusetts. The whole country isn't helped practically. I asked once in a letter to This Old House and the most they did was say your letter has been received but don't hold your breath. Unless you've been doing home improvement for years and years you cannot follow their instruction.
Why not make sure that you are truly saved by Jesus Christ and practice this way. Remorsefully confess with your heart your sins to Jesus Christ who is God and tell Him that you right now are repenting of your sins and you want to be born again of the Spirit from above. Tell Jesus that you are remorsefully sorry for breaking His commandments and that you are begging for forgiveness from Him. Allow His blood from the cross to wash away your sins. After this is done with your heart successfully the Holy Spirit will come to live within you and He will rebuild you from the inside out. Look for signs that you are saved. Things like spreading the good news from Jesus, getting other people saved, a craving for the word of God, reading the Bible, etc… These things are known as a calling and fruit bearing. If you're not bearing fruit then keep doing it. Sometimes it takes time to get saved. Read Matthew chapter 13 from the King James Bible. God bless!!!
Build a cheap house, rent the house out like it was built at full cost. 10-15 years down the road, sell and move onto the next one. High quality homes have their place. But so do cheap houses. I'd rather see my pockets lined with cash if all I'm doing is investing. Renters wouod never know the difference. E
