Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rough floor over which a finished floor, flooring material, or carpet is laid.
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- noun A level of
flooring below the main floor.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Warmboard can be used in place of regular subflooring plywood although some of the pictures Jetson Green posted showed warmboard being installed on top of regular plywood subflooring, which is both redundant and costly.
Archive for » 2007 » September : Green Building Elements 2007
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Warmboard can be used in place of regular subflooring plywood although some of the pictures Jetson Green posted showed warmboard being installed on top of regular plywood subflooring, which is both redundant and costly.
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They use special nails that have tiny barbs and/or ribbing on the shaft that allow the nails to really bite into the subflooring.
Ask the Builder: Hardwood floors best left to the professionals 2011
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I am putting the most expensive subflooring system there is.
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She juggles the arrival and set-up needs of 25 vendors, from the guys installing the subflooring for the outdoor living rooms she creates to the truckloads of power generators.
Parties That Throw Themselves Katherine Rosman 2011
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You cannot follow us to safety, and you cannot live where we do, behind drywall and under subflooring.
Revolutionaries 2010
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For example, to hold a budget in line, he has sanded and finished the oriented strand board subflooring that is ordinarily covered with carpeting or finish flooring.
Builder mixes it up while achieving energy efficiency Katherine Salant 2010
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Properly installed, neither plywood subflooring nor asphalt roof shingles suffer from the rapid degradation Leinberger describes, and his suggestion that many newer homes rely on drywall for their structural integrity is absurd.
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I've seen properties built in '99 with obvious structural problems (e.g. large, diagonal cracks from door frames), and my' 85 townhouse was missing a couple inches of subflooring in the back of the closet.
Real Estate Live 2010
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Lila Mae Watson parked her van on the service level of city blocks that sometimes sat several stories above the street level, the street itself not the ground but far above the bedrock, the sewers, the subways, basements, subflooring, the sealed box theaters, neglected and reopened speakeasies.
The Dadaist 2010
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