How To Locate Floor Joists Under Carpet

Bob schmidt shows you how to fix repair and improve squeaky floors beneath your carpet.

How to locate floor joists under 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. After all joists are essentially just large studs in the floor. Go in the house and locate the drill bit now you know where the floor beam is and the very small hole is negligible.

Locating floor joists under carpet. Just the way you need to find a wall stud before you can attach anything to a wall you need. The wooden beams that support a subfloor are called joists. How to find a floor joist under the carpet.

Fortunately if your stud finder has a deep scanning option you can use it to find the joists under the carpet. Floor joists are wooden beams that run across the framework of a house and support the floors. 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. Once the flooring such as hardwood is installed there is little reason to locate the joists unless you are fixing a squeak.