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BobsYourUncle
Jan 05, 2014Nomad
The plywood floor really SHOULD be in one piece from side to side. These things rely on everything being intact and in one piece for structural integrity as it goes down the road. If you start piecing things in there, it loses a lot of this much needed strength.
As for jacking the walls up off the floor, it can be done in a couple of ways. But you do have to remove the screws holding the walls to the floor for a lot further than the repair area. This is to enable lifting the walls up to slide the new plywood in to the outside.
Really, you need to go all the way front to back and across the end to be able to lift it up enough to work on it.
I jacked the walls up off the floor form the ground outside. I put a 2X4 on the ceiling inside in the door area and put a couple 2X4's together on top of the jack and did it that way.
You can also put a 2X4 on the ceiling and jack it up from inside. as long as the 2X4 hits multiple roof framing members.
Then this will give you access to the floor under the walls
As for jacking the walls up off the floor, it can be done in a couple of ways. But you do have to remove the screws holding the walls to the floor for a lot further than the repair area. This is to enable lifting the walls up to slide the new plywood in to the outside.
Really, you need to go all the way front to back and across the end to be able to lift it up enough to work on it.
I jacked the walls up off the floor form the ground outside. I put a 2X4 on the ceiling inside in the door area and put a couple 2X4's together on top of the jack and did it that way.
You can also put a 2X4 on the ceiling and jack it up from inside. as long as the 2X4 hits multiple roof framing members.
Then this will give you access to the floor under the walls
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