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So I was putting down a big roll in a sunroom and the pad just... vanished.
This was in a house over in Springfield, the kind with those old sunrooms that are basically all windows. I had the carpet all laid out and ready to go, but when I went to pull the pad across, it was like the floor just ate it. Turns out, the old subfloor had these huge gaps between the planks, maybe two inches wide in some spots, and the pad had slipped right down into the crawl space below. My helper just stared at the hole like he saw a ghost. We had to cut a new piece of pad, but first I had to lay a bunch of scrap plywood strips over the gaps to bridge them (I keep a bundle in the truck for weird stuff like this). It added a solid hour to the job, but the carpet went down smooth after that. Has anyone else run into a floor that was more air than wood?
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lilycraig23h ago
Classic Springfield special. Those sunrooms are basically fancy tents with a floor that's more suggestion than structure. I once pulled up linoleum in a similar place and found a family of squirrels had been using the gap as a highway, @margaret_chen. Your plywood strip fix is the move. It's either that or your pad ends up as a gift for the crawl space critters.
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