How to level a floor!

When laying carpet or installing tiles, you need to ensure that the surface you are laying them on is completely level. You may not notice a slope at first but you will become aware of a slight slope as time goes by, creating a very annoying and rather disappointing result.

You will need :

- Spirit level
- Hammer
- Try square
- Punch tool
- Hardboard sheets
- Bucket of clean water
- Paint brush
- Saw
- Straight edge
- Diamond-headed panel pins

Take a spirit level and use this to check the slope of your floor before tile or carpet laying commences. If your floor does have a slope, this can be easily corrected using hardboard sheets. Before you begin, remove your skirting boards, these will be fixed on again after you have levelled the floor. Also, check the ventilation of your floorboards by looking for the room’s airbrick.

If you cannot find the airbrick and your flooring does not have sufficient ventilation, install an airbrick and look for signs of mould and damp, this should be treated before you install your hardboard. It is useful to mark out the location of underfloor pipes and electrics on your old floorboards using a try square. When it comes to the installation of the hardboard sheets lay narrow strips of board

on these marked areas so that they can be easily lifted for emergency repair or maintenance. Next prepare your old floorboards by driving in any protruding nails using the nail punch and screwing down any loose boards. Due to the humidity being different in every room, it is essential that your hardboard sheets have time to acclimatise to the room in which they’ll be placed.

Bring your hardboard sheets into the room and brush around one litre of water onto the rough side of each board. Leave the boards in the room for 24 hours so that they can adjust to their new surroundings. Once the boards have acclimatised for a full day, saw to the desired size using the straight edge as a guide.

Lay the boards rough side up and fix using the diamond-headed panel pins, pin every 100mm for a secure finish. After attaching all the sheets, the floor will now be ready and level enough to house your new carpet or tiles to a highly professional standard.

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