The home's subfloor then gets placed atop of the joists and can be made from different materials (most often particle board, plywood, or oriented strand board). Then, underlayment can be laid on top.

The steps required to prepare a subfloor for tile depend on the material in place, with concrete and plywood being the most common substrate types. If you have a concrete subfloor, start by ...

Hardwood flooring needs to be attached to a subfloor, usually plywood. Then, planks are nailed to the subfloor through the tongue, so the nails don’t show when the floor is completed.

Wood shrinks and swells as humidity fluctuates with the weather, bringing on squeaking hardwood floors as the planks rub against each other or the subfloor below. Or a plywood subfloor deflects ...

We redid the floor of my friend's barn today... Replaced a lot of the subfloor and covered everything with cheap plywood. It's going to be a workshop, primarily for our pile of motorcycles.< ...

It appears the easiest way to do this is through the floor. The trouble is that the subfloor in the attic is tongue and groove oriented strand board (OSB). Removing a piece in the middle of the ...

screw a 2-by-4 or a straight piece of plywood to the joist so the top edge of the add-on fits tightly against the back of the subfloor. Make the piece about a foot longer on each end than the area ...