Buckling Floor
I recently rested some heavy wood on my floor for a project for a few days. When i moved it, I noticed that the small parkay squares had buckled in one spot. They are still attached, but there is a “bump” that comes up about 2 inches spanning about 3 of the 4″ tiles. I…
I recently rested some heavy wood on my floor for a project for a few days. When i moved it, I noticed that the small parkay squares had buckled in one spot. They are still attached, but there is a “bump” that comes up about 2 inches spanning about 3 of the 4″ tiles. I don’t have any experience with flooring – is there any way to fix this?
I have over 2500 square feet of sucupria 3/4 planks wood floor laid downstairs in my home, it is on a 3/4 inch subfloor over concrete, the sub floor was glued down with liguid nails and the sucupria then nailed in, the project was done 9 months ago. My contractor used roofing felt in between the hardwood/subfloor as a moisture barrier, “said this was cheaper and Old school” I have one area about 3 feet by 6 feet that is slightly warping, it is more like sinking in the middle and the edges very slightly raised, for instance when you rub your foot across it you can fee the inconsistency, my question is do you think water/humidity can be the cause for this or could it be the glue is releasing from the sub floor, Would a moisture meter give me an answer on this if so what type of meter, I still have 250 sq foot of the wood left over if I needed to pull it up, trying to avoid alot of work. The remaining floor looks beautiful. thanks
i recently had some bamboo floor planks installed. They were glued down to the concrete floor. There are a couple areas that pop-is there a quick fix to get some glue down under the planks without taking the area up-it’s in the middle of the floor-we think there may have been a shallow spot in the concrete and not enough glue put down in that area.
Most likely the old floor absorbed the moisture from the green wood. Was it a stack of 2×3″s? Wood that is not kiln dried can still be quite wet and even sweat under the right circumstances. Your floor needs to dry out. Wait a couple of months for the wood to go back down. You might want to weigh it down. If you give it some time you might not have to do any thing to fix it.
Well that is interesting Lisa. Can you see any nails? traditional floors like this are nailed. If you can’t see ticking from nails it’s my guess it was glued. Was the heavy wood that you had on it, really wet? Something made the wood shift, from the sub-floor. Is your “bump” in between two tiles? Often I see this when water gets under wood tiles making them warp. If this is the case, you may have to pop off the old wood tiles, remove the glue on the sub-floor and replace the wood tiles with new ones . That is, if it is the inexpensive glue down wood tiles.
Rick, I’m the poster. The floor is at least 10 years old, but probably older. I am not sure about the glue. Thanks for any advice you can give me.
It’s hard to answer your question with out a photo or more information. How old is this floor? Is it new? Was it glued down over something else?