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.

Minimum thickness should be 5/8 inches for plywood and 23/32 inches for OSB. When joists are spaced 16-19.2 inches apart, subfloor should be ¾ inches for both materials.

Depending on how the subfloor was cut out, you may have access to the joists so you can nail the new subfloor patch to them. Typically though, you will have to cut back the flooring to expose the ...

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.

The construction expert said the most common signs of water-damaged subfloors are soft spots or sagging, persistent mold or mildew, delamination or crumbling plywood, and warping or buckling.

I still have four rooms of subfloor to go, and no matter how hard I try, I can't convince myself to look forward to it. I can't see the beauty in it. I'm filled with an overwhelming dread.

The house specifications on the sell sheet indicate that the subfloor consists of 2-X-10-inch southern yellow pine floor joists 16 inches on center covered with a single layer of 3/4-inch plywood.

In 20 years, thousands of steps have caused the plywood to flex and, little by little, to loosen the nails holding the subfloor in place. The result of this normal use is that today the subfloor ...

Engineered Flooring Engineered flooring—also called engineered hardwood flooring —is a solid core of premium, dimensionally stable plywood with a thin veneer of hardwood on top. The veneer ...