WOW! Lifting & Bouncing Laminate Flooring Fix (Expansion Problem) | XDIY
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ก.ค. 2024
- My Laminate Floor started to lift and bounce drastically...!
Laminate Flooring bouncing, lifting, separating or buckling problems, can occur from the following causes for example:
1. Water damage, moisture under flooring etc.
2. Expansion gap issue - lack of proper expansion spacing (too small spaces between the floor and walls) - This was my case.
How to fix / repair it? Everything is on the video. Enjoy!
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Thank you so much.
You're welcome!
I have the same laminate flooring Krono D4567, great color 😀
Yes, I like it too 😀🙏
Nice one. This is a job that's on my list!
@@malicant123 Thanks. Do you have this issue on your floor?
@@XDIY Yup. It's not too bad, but it's one I need to fix.
@@malicant123 Good luck 🙂
@@XDIY cheers
Cool idea the hot glue.
Thanks!
It also looks like you didn’t leave any space between the bottom of your baseboards and the floor. When they touch the floor after installing, they are basically holding down the floor and preventing movement as well.
I actually never saw that it's required to leave such space and the floor can still move, but I'll check it. Thanks for the tip! :)
That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.
I didnt get it , so you got to leave some space between bottom of base board and floor or NOT ??
It doesn’t have to be visible to the eye when standing up. But I left a small 1/16 of an inch space where I could between the baseboards and floor and have not had any problems. And do not nail your boards into the floor planks, but only your wall studs.
WOW 😱... I was shocked to see that my floor lifted drastically. It happened only on the side of the room so it took some time to notice it... BUT, it's easy to fix with some simple steps I present in the video.
(Note that this flooring issue can be caused also by other things not covered in my video). Enjoy.
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If the wall is Sheetrock it’s always easier cutting the Sheetrock so that the floor can slide underneath instead of cutting the floor.
Thanks. In this case it's a concrete wall...
@@XDIY i figured since you glued the base instead of nailing .
What is the tool called that you are using too cut the pieces?!
It's called Oscillating Multi Tool. This is the one I'm using but of course you can use any other...
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Nice fix. Guess it was not yourself that put the original floor down?
Pleading guilty :) Since you asked, I'll explain in detail: I installed the laminated floor about 8Y ago in our new apartment.
About 50 meters in 4 rooms. I left spaces during the installation as required, and it was ok all years and still ok in the other rooms.
Since COVID-19, I started to work from home few days a week (I'm a Software Engineer) and worked in this room.
In the last winter I closed the door and window and used the AC on Heat mode for a lot of hours and many days.
One day I noticed this bounce and was shocked!😀 As you can see, it was relatively severe. Initially I thought that it's related to a water flood, but there is no water source near this room.
So... I can only guess that it was due to the Heat in an unventilated room. In addition, in the other side of the room not seen in the video, there are heavy furniture pressing the floor, so maybe that caused the floor to expand only in one side, making the gaps not big enough and a bigger issue.
Anyway, it proves the fact of the floor expansion when it's warm, so I decided to share the problem and the fix which can help others with wrong installation :)
Thanks!
@@XDIY Why you mentioned that it could take some time for the floor to be flat? And how long?
@@LeanSab In my case it took few weeks. I guess it depends on the temperature & humidity in the room, how bad is the case on your floor, etc.
I'm not a laminate floor pro, but I'll try to explain it the way I understand it:
- The floor was expanded do to temperature & humidity changes.
- The expansion gaps aren't good enough so the floor boards are expanded against the walls until there is no more space.
- The floor keeps expanding, but now it's starting to rise in different places. The laminate floor boards now have lost their flat shape.
- Now you make the fix that I did and cut the floor edges - the floor should have enough room in order to be flat again, but laminate floor material is usually HDF (like MDF), which is relatively stiff and is now "deformed". So, it may take time to be flat and get the original shape (and maybe in some bad cases not).
It's not a soft material like a carpet for example, which will just will straighten up immediately...
(If the issue occurs due to water damage, moisture under flooring etc. which is other case - the floor probably should be replaced).
Glue down engineered hardwood is the answer
Next time... 🙂
Why?
Why what? 🙂
@@XDIY due lack of dilaration
@@adiadr1708 The problem was due to lack of spaces near the walls
@@XDIY qui
Didn't even fix the problem
4:02 Can't you see the differences before & after? The laminate boards were warped for a long period due to their expansion and lifting, so of course that after the fix they didn't return to their original shape immediately. I recorded it few days after the fix. Later it was better, but I think that you can clearly see differences...
You can always replace the boards if the result is not satisfactory, depending on damage...
What do you imagine the problem was? Of course he fixed it. As he stated, it'll take a little while for the floor to flatten out again.
@@XDIY Thank you, Is it possible to speed up the flattening by blowing a hair drier or something to get rid of absorbed moisture? or keeping a heavy furniture on the raised surface? May be a laser level can identify the exact point to keep the furniture on.
@@emailshe It's hard to say because I haven't tried, but in my opinion you shouldn't try with a hair dryer, so it won't do any extra damage, but let the room be ventilated at room temperature. You can try to put a heavy furniture, I don't know how much it will help and it depends on how bad the situation is. Take into consideration that putting too much pressure on raised floor might cause the laminate boards to disconnect from each other.