![]() I'm sorry this isn't a clean out.I put myself through college running plumbing and I've never seen a pluming contractor off set a vertical line like this for clean out. The builder said they cannot warranty against wood movement as the house settles and wood shrinks and all. I understand that the subfloor and joist spacing is most likely to blame, as I can actually feel some of the boards flexing as I walk. They have gotten worse and now we have been here a year and it is still bothersome to say the least. Then as the humidity started rising in summer, the upstairs floors developed noises like pops and cracks (sounds really loud at night when walking down the hall trying not to wake the kids!). The first 6 months of living here were fine. We naively thought they put Advantech upstairs). We changed our mind at the last minute to all wood upstairs as well, but the subfloor is only OSB over the joists spaced 24"OC (didn't realize that at the time. However, upstairs was supposed to originally be carpeted. There are no noise issues at all downstairs where there are two subfloors. We have white oak flooring on both levels of our home. ![]() ![]() ![]() So the floor feels pretty solid despite the joists being spaced so far apart. We insisted that they put the Advantech over it. I didn't realize until we moved in that our joist spacing (I-joists spaced 24" OC) was spaced so far apart! Thankfully, our downstairs has 2 subfloors (we were supposed to only have Advantech as the subfloor, but they made a mistake and put OSB down instead. We had a house built in VA while we were still living in NC, so we were unable to keep checking on the house as it was being built. I'll try to describe everything as best I can. ![]()
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