It s pretty easy when you know how.
How to make a hole on the floor.
Once you ve got your plug cut out you just need to apply wood glue and use a mallet.
Examine the run of the floor joists that you exposed when you cut the hole in the subfloor panels.
You could also use a circular saw with a masonry bit to cut out damaged concrete.
The auto planner automatically considers the holes as exclusion areas where access points cannot not be placed.
Required tools for this project.
You may need to make sure the hole is an even diameter.
Although it s slower the advantage of the low tech method is that you can make any size hole without buying more tools.
The waste pipe that fits through the hole in the floor is called a flange and it has two parts.
However if the floor above does not have a hole or is the building s top floor the auto planner may place aps on the ceiling over of current floor s hole.
Next detach one end of the coping saw blade feed it through the starter hole reattach it and go to work.
This filler is more flexible however and moves with the vinyl flooring as.
Remove all floor panels in the room covering those joists as well as the nearest adjacent joists to both sides of the hole in the floor with the prybar and then set them aside for later use in covering the joists.
We removed an old chimney and that l.
Either process requires cutting away flooring.
We show every step to repair a big hole in the subfloor.
First drill a starter hole with the masonry bit.
You can do this by holding the chisel diagonally to chip away at the bottom edges of the hole.
If possible make the bottom part of the hole slightly wider than the top part.
When converting an attic or basement to finished living space you may decide to replace a ladder with a stairway or to enlarge an existing stairway.
Cutting a hole in the floor for a staircase may happen during new construction or while renovating an older home.
All done from the top side.
Making the bottom part a little bigger helps lock the patch into the existing concrete.
Use the hole in floor platform tool to cut an opening in the floor platform.