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Replacing floors after flood damage

6 years ago

My home was built in 1968, just a standard little ranch, 1100 sq ft. A flood came through last year and i got water about 1 inch deep throughout the house. I finally saved up the insurance deductible to have it fixed recently.


The contractors tore out all the floor which was hardwood on top of 1x10 lumber nailed crossways over the joists. They came back with plywood (OSB?), 1 layer thick, then a laminate floor. The new floor is considerably thinner than the old floor, because laminate is a lot thinner than old hardwoods.


Two questions I guess - is this standard to only put down one layer of subfloor? And if so, how to I make my doors and door trims look good again? The door trims no longer go all the way to the floor, there's a gap under all of them about 1/2 inch, plus all my doors swing a lot higher off my floors now, again because my new floor is about 1/2 to 3/4 inch lower than my old floor. This goes for my entry door thresholds too,


Thank you.