There is a rag in the drain. Don't worry guys

I’m a retired bricklayer and I took so much time to make sure that my foundations were exactly level and square, carpenters used to go into the work office and argue with the site manager that it was their turn to follow my work because they knew that everything from foundation to floor then to ceiling and to wallplate was exact and correct, I was taught to make it easier for the guy following you and take pride in your work

I like how you showed the thought process with the screws and then changed your mind. Could have edited it out, glad you left it in. Helps to watch how others think and troubleshoot!

The difference between "level" and "true" or "flat" is lost on many contractors. Like you said, making it truly level would have caused problems with sloping tile ramps. In the end, it's how it "appears" to the eye, as that is how the owners will "see" it every day. The only other guy I've seen talk about this in public is Mike Holmes from Canada. Good work! Bravo Zulu!

When I am done tearing everything out and down to a bare slab, I run my 7" grinder with a masonry cup and dust recovery setup over the floor. It knocks down the high spots and reveals a lot about the floor in a relatively small amount of time. It has proven to be a great time saver for me.

It's hard to find contractors with the mix of integrity, knowledge, grit, intelligence, professionalism as you.

This is, by far, the best , most detailed video I’ve seen regarding this topic. Thank you for being so detailed, and so clear on every step.

Wow someone who actually cares about doing a job right , i wish all contractors were like this guy .

renaissance man over here here teaching people about portmanteaus while teaching about flooring. What a king

As I said on a previous comment, I've been a remodeling contractor in NorCal for over 40 years. Watching your videos has been a real delight! And believe or not, I pick up something from each one, which proves that you're always learning something new in this trade! Thanks for the fun and informative videos, and keep them coming!

The detailed how to and why is what sets your videos apart from the others in the diy video realm

As a GC, with a career in many aspects of construction, he made that shower pan look MUCH easier than it is. Fantastic job. One thing to consider from one professional to another, is to do our best to minimize dust and debris to other parts of the house. Closets, beds, flooring etc. Good job on the drop clothes for foot traffic throughout the day.

I love this guy's meticulousness.

I love hearing you two interact with each other. :-) Thank you! Keep it up!

Portmanteau! Very impressive. Can't believe I learned a new vocab word watching your handyman video. One can improve their DIY and SAT score at the same time. Keep up the great work and hope 2021 is a great year for you guys.

I'm aware that I am late to the party and this comment won't be very helpful for this job, but I figure the info I'm providing might be helpful to you guys in the future, so here it goes. First my credentials, Commercial / Residential Flooring Subcontractor for 30 years. Have done countless floors just like those and also much, much worse. I had a cringe moment when you talked about doing it true level, and the lowest point was at the rooms entrance, but then breathed a sigh of relief when you came back and changed your plains. Which was absolutely the right call. Really the biggest error I saw (mainly from inexperience) was your pouring barriers, and more specifically the width of them. The ones around the walls should have been made of 1/4 inch plywood, ripped to the width needed, then caulked if need be. But often simply using masking tape is good enough, as it bonds EXTREAMLY well to the latex primer that was applied to the floor. More importantly, it's strong enough to hold back the leveler, but weak enough to allow you to remove it once your floor has cured. Then a simple skim coat of thinset flooring patch around the walls fills any remaining gaps without the worry of it flowing because it can be applied much thicker. What you don't want to do is what you said at the end, and saw off the excess foam an leave that around the perimeter of your room, because that inevitably will be where the new flooring will get damaged in the future. Because you now have a soft substrate that someone could place a A-frame ladder leg onto, or perhaps drop something hard, and it absolutely can and will result in the tile breaking. Seen it many times cause by foam filled expansion joints, curtain highrise walls being poorly connected to slab and the list goes on. Its just bad practice to ever leave something softer than the subfloor to remain anywhere under a finished floor, regardless of how obscure a location you think it is, Murphy's Law says, if it can happen, it WILL HAPPEN. Eventually

Just found your channel yesterday, I'm hooked! Great to see a father and son working so well side by side. Those memories are priceless and the knowledge being passed down can't be attained any better way. Continue what you're doing, it's quality content the likes of which is becoming harder to find all the time.

That's some Super head scratching detail work you put into the leveling of the bathroom floor. VERY, VERY NICE!!!!!!

Really enjoying watching this bathroom come together!

Thanks for sharing guys. Exactly what I needed to see to provide me the confidence to use the self leveling material.

Great to hear the thought process as it happens - years of experience clicking over there :-)

I can tell that your channel is gonna blow up. Your content is not only very detailed and informative, but clear and easy to take in. Oh yeah, and entertaining. Stud Pack has dialed in the triple threat of success on KZfaq - informative, clear, and entertaining. Keep on, keepin' on 💪

I was scared when you were talking about some type of ramp at the door. Glad you changed your mind. It looks great.

love watching these videos. When I did the french travertine in my kitchen the floor was 2.25" out from the far corner. I, with a friend, mixed 58 bags of self leveler in garbage cans. That was the hardest day I ever had working construction. The floor is like glass now, it weighs as much as a bus, and costs just as much as the granite countertops because that leveler is not cheap.

Simply beautiful! Nice work!

Smart. Nicely done. Curious about the sloped tiles on the edges -- look forward to seeing how you work it out.

I'm a retired contractor and very impressed with your work. You almost made me forget what a terrible dissapointment nearly every job was. Yes, folks usually choose the cheapest bid, so we are forced figure out ways to do it cheaper (if you want to work). Also when ppl cut corners, like not replacing the cabinetry or using cheaper materials, it somehow is reflected back to the GC. There was rarely a case where everyone left satisfied. This attention to detail is unlikely if not for a "how to" video.

Really nice work ........ thanks for sharing the professional leveling tips

So much good information here. Thanks for making the video. I’ve got a barn floor to house reno I’m working on and will be doing the same to level the floors. I’ll give your screw method a try.

So much building wisdom that you wouldn’t expect to learn about a portmanteau in the same video. Terrific.

Great work! So cool you get to work together.

Thanks again fellas. Always so easy to follow w great explanations!

Love this! Just did the (pretty much) same thing on Friday! Nice to re assure my decisions. Looking forward to next video!!

Great camera work on the self leveling. We could see that it was as smooth as a baby's bottom

Portmanteau! First time I added to my vocabulary watching diy vids on KZfaq, which coincidentally is another portmanteau. They're everywhere!

Thanks for posting this, as a novice these videos give me confidence to try new techniques. 👍

Great discussion and problem solving.

They make an expansion foam that unrolls and you can spray 3m adhesive on the wall and just stick it on. Then cut off the excess after the leveler is dry. Quicker than cutting all those pieces around the walls.

Man cant wait to remodel my bathroom love doing all the work myself thanks to this videos.

Finding floor level with the screw trick was a great idea. I think I would leave them behind to help super refine the self-leveler and micro adjustments there after. You can always take the screws out later.

Prep is the key thinking about everything and you guys did it a good job I'll be waiting for the awesome final results 👏 👏 Happy new year folks keep in that way 👊👍

When you do self leveling compound, you need a spiked roler to even the overlaps

You can really tell that he cares about the quality of his work and the customer's needs, too.

I love watching hard working benevolent professionals like your self 🙏!

Quality workmanship, pleasure to watch it

Gonna be honest. The work is excellent but the quality of the video is just as good. Love it when people take pride in what they do. Thanks guys and happy new year.

Looks like you’re doing it right! I was curious to see if the ramp at the threshold would have worked out unnoticed.

Love it we just did something similar today, I thought I was a genius thinking of using the foam as a dam, well I guess I’m wrong we poured self leveler today and everything worked out! Thank you for the video

This looks great and I love seeing all the tips and suggestions.

This guy makes this look easy. It isn’t easy, it’s tedious and physical working on your knees. Great video.

Great job. Glad you moved away from leveling the floor and then sloping the tile to meet the wood floor. 3/4 inch slope over that distance is not too bad. A barefoot just skims the surface of a floor while walking. A half inch slope in a two foot distance can de noticed by some people. I’ve actually done this and regretted it everyday.

You have great skills . Thank you

Perfect, many thanks for the upload 🙏🏼

This is my first video I've seen from you, and I'm so glad I found your videos... I greatly enjoyed every second, I love how detailed you and your helper is, and how you make sure your quality is top notch... I as a independent contractor myself pride myself of my work, and always put quality first... much love from central Florida, and I enjoy and can't wait to see another great video.

Great job on the floor, sometimes in life projects dictate how it should be done...can't find some things in a book 👍👌

SUPER job - you certainly are careful and thorough; I learned a lot. Bravo.

Really interesting. Super instructive. You're a natural teacher.

This is my first video of yours and just want to say the video editing and production is nice really nice

Jeeeeeesus, this is what it looks like when an absolute *artist* gets to work - ALSO - camera work and editing was super on point, really amazing content fellas! SUBBED!

Really like the plastic anchor idea. Thanks for sharing

Great work guys. Explained very well.

Great personality for KZfaq! Please keep up the content!

As someone who does these things for a living I mostly face palm myself while all these people with minimum skill want to be You Tube stars before they have reached the level of professionalism that would warrant them teaching others. I especially liked how you showed me how to the level the floor with the screw method, then pivoted because it was not going to work with the slope going the wrong way with the door transitions. People have no idea the amount of thought and planning going on with tile. Flat/level/plumb is not always easy in a house that has settled, or had people before you with the "good enough attitude". A good contractor tries for perfect. Nothing is perfect, but trying for perfect one notch down is excellence. You do excellent work. I recently put in a shower door where the tub was not level. I took 2/16 of an inch off one side. The homeowner actually noticed! I laughed and told them why. Then I asked if there was anything else. NOPE. I felt good, they noticed that but nothing else was amiss.

Thank you for sharing, you are a great teacher!

Wish I had you do my floor. You pay attention to detail and take pride in your work to do it right. 👍

Dude, this guy is a genius. I'm not worthy...

Good video! Just a tip, if you run a small air compressor in a corner the vibrations will help the self leveler settle across the floor space. Also, you can use a rake with short tines to push it around quickly and that will help it find level between the pours. Occasionally you can end up with a small lip between the buckets if you don't spread it together.

Great work, man! Especially reconsidering and adjusting your plans when you find they do not work any more. Thank you for posting.

Very nice job ... "I was so anxious about that..." made me smile, been there many times. That's "the privilege" of the professional. Keep up the good work.

Happy new year fellas. Leveler turned out good. I usually bring a squeegee to that fight. Package say “self” leveler but I like to poke it along with squeegee. Looks great. How much tamping down did you do with mortar bed. Just curious? Jerry from Fresno

I’m a flooring contractor of 25 years and I have no problems with you’re installation method. But for the love of God please put some knee pads on. Ha Ha....good video!!

One of the best KZfaq videos. Thank you for sharing you process.

As an electrician I found this really interesting. It's great to see people that really care about finding the best way to do things. Watching someone explore with new products and make assumptions based on previous knowledge and explain their thought process is what I came to see.

Can't wait till see you finish that bathroom and start a new project to learn something new

What a pleasant and well spoken professional man. He has a very likeable nature and I wish him (and his crew) a prosperous and happy journey on KZfaq and elsewhere.

Creative artistry! Knew how to solve a problem.

That was super-helpful. Thank you

VERY GOOD STUFF, I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM THIS VIDEO

I used to tape my drain so it wasnt full of junk

Boy, that looks so professional! Beautiful. I am a homeowner and watched others on utube and have noticed someone using golf spike shoes and a spiked floor roller for going over the entire floor smoothing it. Keep up the great work. Love how you explain everything!!!!!!!

I was so anxious when you were going to level the whole floor, but then you decided to make it flat instead and then a wave of relief washed over me. Looks great guys !

To everybody in here, saying, Oh i wish there was contractors like you in my area, blah blah blah! There is! You just think there quote is too expensive or a rip off, or you are getting done over. No you not, 9 times out of 10, you will get ripped off by the guy that is cheap.

Talk about a skilled craftsman!! WOW!

This is a great video. I spent many years pouring self leveling cement on commercial projects. You did a great job. We would save time by using weather stripping for our dams as well as 10oz Cove base adhesive to fill in any gaps (this worked better than caulk). Also, if you have extra hands…you can wear spiked shoes or cleats and walk on the self leveling material to work it in.

As a DIYer watching this video is a strong reminder what you get when you hire a professional!

Great job! Haha you never expect to hear “portmanteau” when watching a bathroom refinishing vid! Nowadays they call those words “blends”. I guess the younger generation couldn’t handle all those letters...and sounding refined!

Great attention to detail!!! There are two ways to do anything... The right way.... and... The right way.

That's fantastic. I learn new ways to do things, and had vocabulary test also! You are funny! Keep up the great work!

Finally a craftsman that knows what he's doing.

I've been a remodeler for over 40 years. You do a great job! Just curious why you didn't pull the cabinets and carry new flooring wall to wall to allow for future cabinet replacements? Also, what kind of camera do you use, the clarity is fantastic.

Great work and techniques!

I've done this many times...BEST INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO I HAVE EVER SEEN.....REASONS FOR EVERY MOVE.....SUPERB..

These are the type of jobs I hate with a passion.

Glad you are not using the pan. I'm a big boy. I have stepped on some of those pans and they gave way, so that isn't going to work. Also, you could be showering with your four favorite girl friends., and cause a leak.

Wow some much useful knowledge. Thanks 👍

Very nice job explain the process ,well done.

Wear cleats when messing with a self leveler. There's ALWAYS something that needs touched up at the other end of the room. :/

Why do ppl get these center drain showers when a single slope linear drain would be much easier??

You're a smart man. Thanks for the video.

I am getting ready to do my floor. Thanks for posting. Great info!