How To Level Floor For Vinyl. Place the level on different areas of the floor and notice if it lays flat in all. Dealing with uneven floors is a part of the trade when installing flooring.
A plywood subfloor will bridge any minor waves in the existing floor and leveling compound would help too. If you dont have any marbles handy you can check for dips and heaves with an eight-foot carpenters level. I buy renovate and sell for a living in the UK and the floors are often 100 years old.
Level doesnt mean a thing to flooring.
You will have to make sure your joists can handle the addition of considerably more weight from the plywood subfloor and any floor coverings. If you dont have any marbles handy you can check for dips and heaves with an eight-foot carpenters level. Before you can do a good job of installing wood laminate or any other flooring you need a good subfloor to start out with. More important to Laminate flooring than vinyl.
