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When working on the bathroom floor I discovered its floor has a slope similar to the bedroom but in a much smaller area. I started looking at repairing the floor and found a fix that will require replacing the subfloor and leveling the joists. It's going to be a lot of work but it will be worth it.

I already have the LVP delivered. Currently we have carpet in all bedrooms except the master bedroom now. I probably can still level all the bathrooms and I'm thinking about using the LVP stash in all bathrooms now and then installing carpet back in the master bedroom.

I have all three connecting rooms (Master bedroom, bath and walk-in closet) down to the subfloor now (removing ceramic tile was a pain) and measured the slope using the laser. My slope is ~2" with the lowest end where the entry door to the hallway is. If I used a floor leveling product I would...

Thanks! That's good to know. This room is a bedroom so it will have furniture holding the floor in place. My worse case hump to dip is 2.6" but filling and grinding will improve that. I do need to add some overall height so I will add some underlayment, plywood or osb.

Floating.

I know a flat floor is important for LVP but in a 15'x18' room how much slope is acceptable as long as its flat?

My house also has a hump on the second story that aligns with the wall.

😁 It's possible. We already have the flooring in the garage. The more I think about this hump issue the more I think it can be fixed. I probably need to replace few floor joists to do it right.

I looked at the subfloor and joists from underneath and it looks like the someone (probably the first owner) tried to fix this hump before and didn't do a very good job at it. It's hard to say if a proper repair can easily be done at this point. I would first need to remove the existing flooring...

I'll take a look underneath in the crawlspace and get back. The LVP is Flooret Modin Rigid Luxury Vinyl Plank Signature.

The subfloor is 23/32" OSB over engineered floor joists, which I'm not a fan of. The highest point of the hump is near the entry door and left wall to a hall bathroom that has ceramic tile installed. The tile floor has a significant level issue, sloping down from the hump area towards a...

I have a ~1/2" hump in the subfloor (spans 2 rooms and a hallway) that was caused by the floor joists resting on a cinder block wall in the basement. The house initially had improper structural support resulting is excessive settling in areas except for where the wall is. Soon after I bought the...

I was able to purchase Ardex on Walmart of all places, 3rd party seller at under 30 bucks per bag. What I'd like to do is first get my subfloor flat enough for the 1/4" plywood.

I'm going to start one dip at a time until I get use to the process. I'm familiar with the hard water in SoCal. Even the beach cities had it.

I'm looking for Ardex but it seems to be only available online. I saw a few posts that claims Ardex Feather finish and the Henry product is the same. Is this true? One of the other issues I find is that many of these products don't support OSB wood.

Thanks for the feedback! We are in our forever home now but I have a lot of square footage to cover on the first floor so probably won't go with super expensive underlayment. I was recently shocked to see the cost of 1/4" plywood underlayment @ $33 per 4x8 sheet. I do have squeaking floor...

This is another option I would consider. If filling in the major low spots and using a 1/4" underlayment will give me the proper surface for a clean LVP install then I'm in. What 1/4" underlayment would you suggest?

Finding the right product that is compatible with osb and has a decent working time is going to be the challenge.

I'm looking for best outcome. This first room is a test to determine if I want to DIY or pay someone. The following rooms are more of a challenge. I'm thinking using a self leveler for the entire room might be an option.

Thanks for the reply. My next step was to measure subfloor heights around the room. I used my rotary laser level and found the high point to the low point was just over an inch.