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Tried leveling compound on uneven subfloor and it took 3 bags more than I planned
I had a 12x15 room with about a quarter inch dip near the door. Read online one bag would do it, but after mixing and pouring, I saw it needed way more depth than I thought. Ended up using three 50lb bags to get it flat enough for click LVP. Lesson learned: always do a full moisture test and depth check before buying supplies. Has anyone else had a job where the floor was way worse than it looked at first glance?
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carr.elliot5mo ago
Oh man, I feel your pain on this one (and probably your back too, hauling all those bags). That quarter inch dip tricked me once in a 10x12 room, and I ended up mixing three and a half bags before I finally called it good enough. The way the compound flows can be so deceiving when you first pour it out, it looks like it's covering everything but then it settles into that low spot like a black hole. It's one of those things where you really gotta pour a test batch first, or at least mark the high spots with a straightedge and some chalk lines. Hope your click LVP went down smooth after all that work, nothing worse than fighting a wavy floor with those locking joints.
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brian3285mo ago
Is it really that bad if the click LVP just flexes a little?
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jenkins.reese4mo ago
Oh man, that black hole description is perfect (I lost half a bag of self-leveler to a six foot depression once, just watched it pour into the abyss). The wavy floor nightmare is real, I had to pull up three rows of LVP because the locking joints kept popping on a dip I swore I fixed.
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