How To Locate Floor Joists Under Carpet

Locating floor joists under carpet.

How to locate floor joists under carpet.

Bob schmidt shows you how to fix repair and improve squeaky floors beneath your carpet. After all joists are essentially just large studs in the floor. Floor joists are wooden beams that run across the framework of a house and support the floors. I want to know where the floor joists are inside a small closet because i may need to make an additional trap door to access the crawl space nearby under our kitchen.

Fortunately if your stud finder has a deep scanning option you can use it to find the joists under the carpet. Use a long small 1 8 or smaller drill bit and go under the house drill up through the floor as close as you can get to the floor beam. We have had a frozen waterpipe there and i want to check for damage to the pipe a. Just the way you need to find a wall stud before you can attach anything to a wall you need.

Once the flooring such as hardwood is installed there is little reason to locate the joists unless you are fixing a squeak. Go in the house and locate the drill bit now you know where the floor beam is and the very small hole is negligible. He shows you a method of how to find floor joists even when there is. For example if you need to repair a squeaky floor you will need to be able to find the locations of joists in order to correct the problem.