Flooring, Drywall & Interior Finishes in Burbank
Floor, plaster and drywall work for older Burbank houses: hidden framing and wiring found first, original oak refinished, sound plaster kept.
A joist notched deep for a long-gone pipe can sit under an innocent-looking Burbank floor, and so can cloth-covered wiring inside the plaster beside it. Neither shows until boards or wall surfaces come off. When one turns up, the plan shifts: the framing gets repaired first, the wiring gets replaced, and only then do the refinished floor and the new drywall go back over it.
Reading the floor frame
Lifting a few boards at a closet or a heating register shows what carries the floor without tearing up a whole room. We look for joists cut deep for old pipes, spans that sag, patched openings and any stain where moisture once sat against the wood. A notched joist is normally reinforced with a new member bolted alongside, and soft subfloor is cut out and replaced. The oak above then has a flat, stiff base, which lets it be sanded and coated without humps or squeaks telegraphing through. Whatever turns up goes into the written scope before work starts.
Behind the plaster
Plaster over wood lath can hide cloth-sheathed wiring, galvanized supply pipe and open cavities with no insulation. Those finds decide where a wall stays and where it opens. Sound plaster away from the work is patched and kept, along with its original trim. A wall opened for new circuits or pipe gets closed with drywall and a skim finish matched to the rooms around it, and the inspector sees the rough work before any board goes up. The finished wall reads as a single surface with its neighbors.
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Often, when enough wood stands above the tongue of each board to take a sanding. A board checked at the walk-through gives the answer, and damaged planks can be replaced with matching ones taken from a closet or from salvage. Boards sanded many times already may be too thin for another pass.
Plaster bonded to its lath, without wide cracks or bulges, is worth keeping along with the depth and trim lines it gives a room. Drywall earns its place where a wall has to open for new wiring or pipe. Tapping the surface and pressing for loose spots settles it wall by wall.
Only after testing. Older resilient tile, sheet vinyl and the black adhesive beneath them may contain asbestos, so a sample is analyzed before anything is pulled up, and the result sets how the removal is done. Carpet and bare wood come up without that step.
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