Use a long small 1 8 or smaller drill bit and go under the house drill up through the floor as close as you can get to the floor beam.
How to locate floor joists under carpet.
After all joists are essentially just large studs in the floor.
Bob schmidt shows you how to fix repair and improve squeaky floors beneath your carpet.
I want to know where the floor joists are inside a small closet because i may need to make an additional trap door to access the crawl space nearby under our kitchen.
Locating floor joists under carpet.
Floor joists are wooden beams that run across the framework of a house and support the floors.
I also use this method in my sheet rock ceiling to locate the ceiling walls in the attic.
Go in the house and locate the drill bit now you know where the floor beam is and the very small hole is negligible.
The wooden beams that support a subfloor are called joists.
We have had a frozen waterpipe there and i want to check for damage to the pipe a.
He shows you a method of how to find floor joists even when there is.
Fortunately if your stud finder has a deep scanning option you can use it to find the joists under the carpet.
How to find a floor joist under the carpet.