laurence edwardsOwner at Black Mountain Honey

How To Modify Your Floors To Underfloor Entrances

26 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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In this instructional DIY video, Laurence Edwards demonstrates how to modify an existing floor to accommodate an under‑floor entrance. He stresses the critical need for a specific dimension to sit completely flush with the existing floor surface, ensuring a seamless transition. The process involves placing a 9 mm thick piece of plywood onto the floor, then preparing a timber piece by cutting an 8 mm slot to receive the plywood. Finally, he explains that the assembly can be secured using nails, glue, screws, or any preferred fastening method, emphasizing flexibility in the fixing approach as long as the components are firmly held in position.

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What's really important is this dimension here, and you want it to sit completely flush with the national floor. That's going to give you no problems whatsoever. So just make sure it's flush. Doesn't matter how wide it is in that dimension. Then take a nine mil piece of ply, and you're going to put your nine mil piece of ply on there like that. All you need to do then is bring this piece of wood that way. To enable you to get an 8mm slot in this piece of wood here. And it is as simple as that. Stick some nails in, glue it, screw it, however you want to do it. You just need to fix that into position.