How to Level Old House Floor

Complete video showing how to level an old house, fix saggy floors and install house wrap for moisture barrier. Step by step, walkthrough of how to jack up your home, what you need to watch for. We give you all the tools we use, and explain exactly why.Show more

First, we walk you through how to check the house, what signs you need to watch for to find saggy, uneven, and unlevel floors. It's not just the floors you need to look at, but also the walls.

Once you get into the crawl space, you can see what you need to get done, and never know what you could run across. All the beams are flimsy and lightweight. We end up reinforcing them with new wood. Usually, you would want to insulate the floors and house wrap the entire floor if you are going to relevel the floors.

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⏱️⏱️Chapters⏱️⏱️
00:00 Follow along with a handyman
00:25 Older house we will be leveling, and completely re-plumbing
00:45 Walk through house to see what needs to be jacked up
02:30 Huge hump in the floor, what shows you that the house is out of level
05:35 Will Phil fit through the access panel?
07:00 Under the house deciding what we need to do
10:45 Gathering the jacking material. What we need and why.
11:00 Trying to decide if the beam is usable or needs reinforced before we jack on the house
13:00 You never want to jump into the project, take your time deciding how to do it the safest way
14:20 We're set up to jack and lift the beams, but it's crushing them
18:30 Why they put plastic on the ground or in mobile home against the floor
19:55 Day two: jacking the house up and lifting the floors
23:00 Fixing the beams and joist that are breaking as we jack on the house
24:00 Getting to know Phil a bit more. What we did, but couldn't take you along.
28:30 Sliding boards through vent after John cuts them
29:30 How we reinforced the beams
37:45 Setting up for the next sagging beam
42:22 Clay showing the gaps we're trying to close
43:50 One way you can get an idea of how much you need to jack the house up
45:50 Back under the house, what we did yesterday
46:50 None of your piers should have less than 1 1/2" of wood
50:00 How you want to run your blocks
53:20 Everything is as level as we're going to get it
54:35 Tools needed and installing house wrap and insulation
58:15 Be an American not an American't