The "old bat"?? What a hateful comment about either your significant other or a paying customer. I paid a LOT of money for my LVP floors to be properly installed WITHOUT popping voids. Floors should be leveled. If you aren't competent enough to install them correctly don't call women names, you ASSHOLE.
followed your instructions and fixed my kitchen floor today. I just want to thank you , I made a mistake of not levelling my floor before laying my floating floor boards rookie mistake, the soft spot has been bothering me for a while ; your video was a great help.
This absolutely works! Fixed a 3 square foot area of 5/16" Bruce oak flooring with only 2 injections. Cost me $9 for the syringe and glue. No more creaking or popping!
Worked like a champ on a engineered wood floor, did my whole floor, anywhere there were hollow spots. I used wooden skewers to fill holes instead of shavings!
Good stuff. I never used floor leveling compound and I knew I might have some issues in certain spots but this worked great and then I used a brown sharpie to color the hole. Thank you
nicely done!!!, kind of what i was thinking about doing, but i liked your tooling and opposite-end filling method better...i need to do a few spots in my floors too. thanks!
Brilliant! thought I was so smart to get a livestock syringe and file down the needle tip, took WAY more refills of glue. Gonna do the second half with a turkey injector! Man, your floor held a LOT of glue. You can sit the glue in warm water to help thin it. Thank you
ive been doing hardowood floor for 5 years installing and this is the method that is used to do this i use tribond injection gun whitch is a lil more extreme but this is the basic principals of an injection u allready glued the floor down so adding glue isnt gonna cause anymore moisture every one is so worried about moisture but unless its like 90 inside its no problem proper moisture levels are between 56 and 65 depending on the place ... gj pat nice injection
This process and Titebond worked very well!! Once tweak you can make is to use an inflation needle (for a ball) and screw it in the bottom of the Mainstays flavor injector. The smaller needle means alot smaller hole in the floor!!
my engineered wood floor was popping up and I had some hollow spots and I did exactly what you did in the video and it worked perfectly,that glue got the wood floor bonded to the concrete floor perfectly. Thank you very much.
Great video, I suggest he use the wood shavings from drilling the hole and use that to cover the holes. Doing this would give you an exact color match and a nice smooth finish.
The top of the floor is not the same color as in the middle of the board. So the shavings will not be the exact match. You can get colored wood putty to try to get a close match to blend in with the floor color.
Justin... I just put down my "click" engineering hardwood flooring and it looks great. I use the floating method. But I notice that bounce in certain places. It's on a slab that looked perfectly level by the naked eye. I had carpet before I put the engineering wood down. I removed and scrapped all the old glue from the rug. I added an addition to my home awhile back that I paid big money for. I looked at your video very expressive. Is there anything you recommend me to do extra? And will this work for me? Looking for all inputs
Is this just to sound solid? Or does the glue add more support? If do how, if it is not being supported by a concrete slab or block. I'm asking relating a crawl space floor foundation.
One issue, if it is a floating floor, it won't float any longer. Have you tried expanding foam? It needs to be the low expansion type. It will do the same and floor can move.
why did you replace eventually? second question is would you use titebond3 or bond2 should be sufficient. I have an engineering woodfloor that is popping in several places and an underlying floor...
@@leahpatrick55 Got it :) Thanks a bunch. I am going to use that technique . I am still puzzeled as why this happened on several areas of the house. Engineering woodfloor was glued 5 months ago :( . I suspect either the adhesive was not sufficient and/or leveling was not perfect as I have more then 2 meters long boards...
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Marnie Jordan unfortunately prob not floors that old are normally not glued down they are nailed. Can’t be for sure without checking it out but doubt it.
Ok, the guys who have repaired a few of them before have done something similar to what you did. The house is only 4 years old. Unfortunately, I have had this issue before. I am currently in the process of a divorce so was looking for a cheaper way to repair it. I just wanted to be sure before I did anything to them that might damage them.
Would this method work if there was an underlay foam in between the laminate floor and the concrete? Have a few hollow spots and a kitchen island has been installed on top so no chance off lifting the floor again.
Is the glue TiteBond?? What else can I use.?I have wood floor at a transition place that the tiles are loose.I can actually pop them up about 1/2in... I can eliminate the drilling I believe
Say you’ve got an area that’s not much wider than two or three hands, but it crosses 3 different boards, believe it is where previous owners of our house had the foot of one of their sofas. Will this work the same, just more glue?
Would this be recommended for vinyl floors? I have a lot of areas that sinking in. Seem like it’s going to break in certain areas. What would you recommend??
Would this method work for a floating floor? Wouldn't this prevent proper expansion and contraction? If yes would the same method using silicone be more appropriate? THANKS !!
Is there any reason you're using glue instead of foam like in other videos I've seen? I wonder which one is better? Wood glue or foams like Great Stuff, etc.
maddurus no for popping laminate you can shoot foam insulation underneath the spot. There are TH-cam videos on how to do this I might make one if I run across it !
I have a void under my laminated floor. Do I drill through the underlay and pump the glue below it or drill just through the floor tile and pump the glue above the underlay?
@@leahpatrick55 i don't understand. I thought you are trying to fill a space just underneath the wood tile. My contractor miss a spot when he levelled the floor before installing laminated floor. What will be the problem if i attempt to fill the space beneath my laminated floor using your method?
@@ShrimpCracka Why not? What would you use for that situation? I have engineered hardwood and they placed underlayment before installing the wood but have one terrible hollow place that aggravates me so much.
@@leahpatrick55 thank you for your response. I have been watching a lot of videos about this particular hardwood repair and some use 3M epoxy instead of glue. Would appreciate to know your opinion on expoxy vs glue for this work ?
i have a problem with the floor having hot foil underneath I'm not sure if this is your method or another one I've seen on youtube ... it's with foam .. Your method ... I'm worried the glue won't spill under the floor and with the foam method I do not know whether the foam is sufficient to bear the load
Let's think about this for a second. It's an engineered wood so it's floating on foam and not glued down, right? Now, this guy is suggesting you shoot a water based glue under the wood floor but onto of the foam layer. First, I believe the foam is going to absorb/distribute the glue a bit. Second, the underpart of the floor is wood so, you just added moisture to the problem. Lastly, I'm not sure if the floor is going to float anymore in that section so issues may arise at this point or in another area. It's been over a year and I'd love to know whether this fixed the issue.
43caliban43 first off not a floating floor. And I only suggest this on an engineered glue down floor on a slab done this many times works great ! This is my personal house in the video.
It's great to hear that no other issues arose. I was not aware that the installer glued the engineered wood down to the slab. Do you think that was part of the problem?
Mine is hickory from Regal Floors. It’s Walla Walla canyon and was put down on the slab. Now I have about 5 areas doing this popping. One involves about 3 square feet. The syringe I used was for cows. Fail. Glue just came out where I was injecting. I see my hole was too big as part of the problem. What did get in didn’t fix it.
Thank you, I followed your video and made more of a mess than you did, but in the end...IT WORKED! and it was easy.Oh and I am a 66 year old woman.
Just bought a new house and you saved me a lot of wife stress.... Keep making videos
Dude! Ur my hero. Finally can get the old bat off my back about flooring that slightly moves when she steps on it.. wish that was my biggest problem.
The "old bat"?? What a hateful comment about either your significant other or a paying customer. I paid a LOT of money for my LVP floors to be properly installed WITHOUT popping voids. Floors should be leveled. If you aren't competent enough to install them correctly don't call women names, you ASSHOLE.
Followed your advice exactly, worked beautifully and saved money!!!! Thank you!
So great . Easy , not messy, super cheap. Your awesome, thanks brother.
Best method I’ve seen so far. Thank you.
This is the Best and most useful video. Thanks
Your technique is best and less expensive I’ve seen so far... I know I can manage, however my area is bigger and it’s in a door way...... Thank you ..
followed your instructions and fixed my kitchen floor today. I just want to thank you , I made a mistake of not levelling my floor before laying my floating floor boards rookie mistake, the soft spot has been bothering me for a while ; your video was a great help.
Great video! Will do this with no hesitation. Thanks
Worked like a boss.
By the way I used bamboo skewers to fill in the holes.
Thanks
This absolutely works! Fixed a 3 square foot area of 5/16" Bruce oak flooring with only 2 injections. Cost me $9 for the syringe and glue. No more creaking or popping!
I'm going to fix my floor using your method bud. Thank you for your video.
Good easy to follow video, just laying a floor and may have a some uneven patches so this seems a simple fix. thanks
Worked like a champ on a engineered wood floor, did my whole floor, anywhere there were hollow spots. I used wooden skewers to fill holes instead of shavings!
Good stuff. I never used floor leveling compound and I knew I might have some issues in certain spots but this worked great and then I used a brown sharpie to color the hole. Thank you
Excellent video! Thank you very much more sharing it.
Great vid. I already know the trick this just popped up in my recommended. Good job
nicely done!!!, kind of what i was thinking about doing, but i liked your tooling and opposite-end filling method better...i need to do a few spots in my floors too. thanks!
Brilliant! thought I was so smart to get a livestock syringe and file down the needle tip, took WAY more refills of glue. Gonna do the second half with a turkey injector! Man, your floor held a LOT of glue. You can sit the glue in warm water to help thin it. Thank you
Thank you very much for the great advice!
Going to try this tomorrow, thank you.
This worked Great! Thanks for your help.
Excellent solution....very helpful thankyou
ive been doing hardowood floor for 5 years installing and this is the method that is used to do this i use tribond injection gun whitch is a lil more extreme but this is the basic principals of an injection u allready glued the floor down so adding glue isnt gonna cause anymore moisture every one is so worried about moisture but unless its like 90 inside its no problem proper moisture levels are between 56 and 65 depending on the place ... gj pat nice injection
This process and Titebond worked very well!! Once tweak you can make is to use an inflation needle (for a ball) and screw it in the bottom of the Mainstays flavor injector. The smaller needle means alot smaller hole in the floor!!
my engineered wood floor was popping up and I had some hollow spots and I did exactly what you did in the video and it worked perfectly,that glue got the wood floor bonded to the concrete floor perfectly.
Thank you very much.
Did you weigh down the popped boards until the glue was hard?
@@markman63 yes I did I waiter over a day to remove the weight just to be sure and until today is perfect.
very good video, thanks.
Thanks that was very good video.
Damn slick idea!!👍👍
Thank you 😄
thank u very much , that is great
glad I could help let me know how it goes!
and of course now you need a warning label on glue bottles .... "NEVER use glue to baste a turkey !!!!" lol
Great video, I suggest he use the wood shavings from drilling the hole and use that to cover the holes. Doing this would give you an exact color match and a nice smooth finish.
The top of the floor is not the same color as in the middle of the board. So the shavings will not be the exact match. You can get colored wood putty to try to get a close match to blend in with the floor color.
If it's engineered wood, only the top layer (wear layer) of the wood is a nice wood veneer, glued on top of not as nice plywood.
10000 bottles of glue later, i'm done!!! underlayment replaced! no more squeaking!
Nice Jimmy Rig
Justin... I just put down my "click" engineering hardwood flooring and it looks great. I use the floating method. But I notice that bounce in certain places. It's on a slab that looked perfectly level by the naked eye. I had carpet before I put the engineering wood down. I removed and scrapped all the old glue from the rug. I added an addition to my home awhile back that I paid big money for. I looked at your video very expressive. Is there anything you recommend me to do extra? And will this work for me? Looking for all inputs
Is this just to sound solid? Or does the glue add more support? If do how, if it is not being supported by a concrete slab or block. I'm asking relating a crawl space floor foundation.
I'm going to try this. Will it work for hardwood (not engineered) floors as well?
What would you use on a floating floor?
One issue, if it is a floating floor, it won't float any longer.
Have you tried expanding foam? It needs to be the low expansion type. It will do the same and floor can move.
Tore out all this flooring today to put new flooring thought out and that spot was the most stuck spot.
why did you replace eventually? second question is would you use titebond3 or bond2 should be sufficient. I have an engineering woodfloor that is popping in several places and an underlying floor...
Or Yaacov I have a flooring store and my wife wanted new flooring. Both glues will work .
@@leahpatrick55 Got it :)
Thanks a bunch. I am going to use that technique . I am still puzzeled as why this happened on several areas of the house. Engineering woodfloor was glued 5 months ago :( . I suspect either the adhesive was not sufficient and/or leveling
was not perfect as I have more then 2 meters long boards...
Thanks JPat. So the wood glue you're using will bond to the concrete subfloor? Many thanks.
Yes most of the time it is bonding to the glue that is on top of the concrete but yes it will bond the concrete also.
Can you do this for vinyl plank flooring?
Those handymen be old man strong. Lifts 70 pound bucket with 1 finger 😂
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Great tutorial! I have hardwood floors that have been refurbished. They are over 100 years old, can I still use this same method for repair?
Marnie Jordan unfortunately prob not floors that old are normally not glued down they are nailed. Can’t be for sure without checking it out but doubt it.
Ok, the guys who have repaired a few of them before have done something similar to what you did. The house is only 4 years old. Unfortunately, I have had this issue before. I am currently in the process of a divorce so was looking for a cheaper way to repair it. I just wanted to be sure before I did anything to them that might damage them.
Would it work also for laminate floor?
Can u recommend the Baster and wood shaving ? Newbie here
Hello, Instead of wood glue how about using epoxy?
does this method work for both solid "old school" hardwood floors as well as engineered hardwoods? Many thanks?
Joshua Bushyhead most of your old school floors are nail down but if it is glued down it will work.
Would this method work if there was an underlay foam in between the laminate floor and the concrete? Have a few hollow spots and a kitchen island has been installed on top so no chance off lifting the floor again.
Gordon Crennell no ...look up how to fix a hollow spot under laminate flooring
Will this method work on laminate floors?
Is the glue TiteBond?? What else can I use.?I have wood floor at a transition place that the tiles are loose.I can actually pop them up about 1/2in... I can eliminate the drilling I believe
Walter Bobruk I would not use it in that case I’d use my wood flooring glue on wood or thin set on tile !
Say you’ve got an area that’s not much wider than two or three hands, but it crosses 3 different boards, believe it is where previous owners of our house had the foot of one of their sofas.
Will this work the same, just more glue?
Ryan Rose yes if it is a glue down floor it should work will need more and weight to sit on it.
Will this glue work for vinyl planks too? I have a dip and i meed to fill the void. Im nervous about using spray foam.
Steve Vihtelic no not for vinyl plank
Thanks, a cheaper solution to a very annoying hollow sounding floor.
Can I do the same process on a floating bamboo flooring? Any advice please?
leafaramsedel no definitely not look up how to fix an laminate floor
Would this work for a floating vinyl click and lay floor?
Morad Al-Muhandes no this is for glued down engineered flooring only
Can the basting needle only be used once?
I'm assuming the glue hardens inside it and it has to be thrown out?
You can wash it out but usually just buy a few of them at a time
Would this be recommended for vinyl floors? I have a lot of areas that sinking in. Seem like it’s going to break in certain areas. What would you recommend??
Linda Ling No this is not for vinyl floors ... sounds like a subfloor issue can’t diagnose it with seeing it
JPat thank you very much!!
Would this method work for a floating floor? Wouldn't this prevent proper expansion and contraction? If yes would the same method using silicone be more appropriate? THANKS !!
TOMPDUDE no you cannot do this on a floating floor you can use spray foam under it look up video on that.
@@leahpatrick55 Thanks for the insane response time and the insight!
What if you had put some rolled foam under there when you laid it
Is there any reason you're using glue instead of foam like in other videos I've seen? I wonder which one is better? Wood glue or foams like Great Stuff, etc.
Alex __ foam is used under floating floors like Laminate this is a glued down floor.
Can you still use this solution if you have a foam underlayment barrier between subfloor & the vinyl plank?
No
Do you drill in the seam purposely or it doesn’t matter which part of the board is drilled
Did you end up doing this in the seam? I have the same question.
When injecting the glue with the turkey baster, the glue keeps coming up to the surface of the floor around the injector. Wonder what I'm doing wrong.
You might have it pushed down into the floor to far. Or you are not in the big gap area.
Does it work for a laminate floor pop?
maddurus no for popping laminate you can shoot foam insulation underneath the spot. There are TH-cam videos on how to do this I might make one if I run across it !
@@leahpatrick55 did you ever make that video?
No but it is on TH-cam.
would this work on laminate flooring thats laid of top of vinyl?
Did you try it?
I'm going to try this on a vinyl plank floor over concrete.
What happens if the entire floor is slightly raised on slats and not flat to the subfloor
Joe Scalise you’ve got a problem probably moister
I have a void under my laminated floor. Do I drill through the underlay and pump the glue below it or drill just through the floor tile and pump the glue above the underlay?
Neither this is for a glue down floor not a laminate floor. Glueing down a laminate will cause problems.
@@leahpatrick55 i don't understand. I thought you are trying to fill a space just underneath the wood tile. My contractor miss a spot when he levelled the floor before installing laminated floor. What will be the problem if i attempt to fill the space beneath my laminated floor using your method?
Would this work with engineered hardwood to underlayment?
no
@@ShrimpCracka Why not? What would you use for that situation? I have engineered hardwood and they placed underlayment before installing the wood but have one terrible hollow place that aggravates me so much.
does this work for vinyl plank flooring ?
No
whats the difference between drilling hole on the surface vs edges of the board ?
Amir Sadr eaiser to hide. You can drill in the middle if you want.
@@leahpatrick55 thank you for your response. I have been watching a lot of videos about this particular hardwood repair and some use 3M epoxy instead of glue. Would appreciate to know your opinion on expoxy vs glue for this work ?
Amir Sadr it will work but costs a lot more.
To allow for expansion, I would think you would not want to bond the floor to the laminate .
It’s an engineered glued down floor not an laminate
Did you see how he yeeted that 70 lbs bucket one-handed?! Forget home improvement. You should be doing work out videos.
That ain't no seventy pounds
did he not put glue through both holes??? no way to know if its travelling between holes then.
definitely make sure you have a full bottle of glue before you start !!!!
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3/16 hole......3/16 oak dowel followed by a touch up pen.
i have a problem with the floor having hot foil underneath
I'm not sure if this is your method or another one I've seen on youtube ... it's with foam ..
Your method ... I'm worried the glue won't spill under the floor
and with the foam method I do not know whether the foam is sufficient to bear the load
ping pong
Why don't they just put glue when installing
You are so cute!
Let's think about this for a second. It's an engineered wood so it's floating on foam and not glued down, right? Now, this guy is suggesting you shoot a water based glue under the wood floor but onto of the foam layer. First, I believe the foam is going to absorb/distribute the glue a bit. Second, the underpart of the floor is wood so, you just added moisture to the problem. Lastly, I'm not sure if the floor is going to float anymore in that section so issues may arise at this point or in another area.
It's been over a year and I'd love to know whether this fixed the issue.
43caliban43 first off not a floating floor. And I only suggest this on an engineered glue down floor on a slab done this many times works great ! This is my personal house in the video.
And Yes it did fix the issue.
It's great to hear that no other issues arose. I was not aware that the installer glued the engineered wood down to the slab. Do you think that was part of the problem?
Mine is hickory from Regal Floors. It’s Walla Walla canyon and was put down on the slab. Now I have about 5 areas doing this popping. One involves about 3 square feet. The syringe I used was for cows. Fail. Glue just came out where I was injecting. I see my hole was too big as part of the problem. What did get in didn’t fix it.
Larry Cleveland, RDN, LD, LMT was your floor glued down as well before you tried the syringe fix?
That’s a lot of glue
Freaking idiots that put the floor down, if they'd use more nails people wouldn't have to do shit like this !
BUT THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO👍
Yo..... that was SO much glue!! wtf
That is NOT how to use a drill. If the hole needs to be bigger, you need to use a larger drill bit.