What type of subfloor are you working with?
There might have been a reason the floated. I agree with you that if you asked for naildown and it was possible to nail down then it should have been naildown.

I wouldnt settle for them to glue it or even fix their mistake with more glue.
The fact is to have a successful floating floor there needs to be subfloor prep. It needs to be flat. Simeone would need to spend some time going over every sq inch.

Likely your install did that. I would get them to rip it out and do it right.

I had a den and kitchen which flow together and a hallway which separate
From other two rooms. Den kitchen had new plywood underlayment, the 80 sqft hallway was particle board. That is the reason they said they had to float all the floors, because they couldn't do two different installs on the same job.the hallway is on other side of house. I figurd they floated it because it was faster and they didn't have time to nail because they admitted to my wife several times they had no time to waste,they had to finish this job today, because they had to be on another job the following morning,and the boss was on vacation.
The hallway has a 90o right turn. I requested they basket weave the turn. They told my wife that was a special installation, they didn't have the time, and they weren't doing that here! Unbeleivable!
There are five or six places that I know of, they installed planks they had already cut off, no tongue, butted right up to groove of next plank end. This is totally unacceptable! They can't just cut these out and replace, but they seem to think they can.
This is variable width,variable length plank floor, but somehow they managed to have continued H patterns across the den floor.
The den flows into kitchen through a doorway. They managed to have 7"wide plank right centered in the doorway. To fit the H pattern piece into this threshold, they cut it half, then glued it back together. Now they want to grind,sand and stain this cut to look like a seem. That may be possible, but it isn't right.
In den and kitchen I counted at least a dozen end joints that you can see the tongue. This is just to big of a hurry installing and to me is unacceptable. They want to stain these tongues so as to make them not so noticeable . I shouldn't have to accept this. I'm sure they wouldn't accept this in their home!
My wife was watching them install, and she knows that only every other joint is glued.
The owner assured my wife was seeing things, because his men would never do that!
They are coming back 8/20/14 to try to fix there blunders.

Here's my only plan.
They are going to have to remove several planks to fix the cutoffs in the middle of the floor. If I see there are planks not glued, they are going to be asked to leave, and send their boss back!

Actually the only way to fix this is to start over.

Am I right or wrong?

Do you have a contract? Does it state that it will be nailed down? Does it state about the basket weave turn?

Normally a special install like a basketweave should have been discussed prior to the start of the job. Since it was small i would have just done it had i done the install but thats not my point. With it being floated you cant basketweave.

Was their discussion about tearing out the particle board? Was that on you or them? If you only hired them to install and not do sub floor prep then they did they could only do.

The glue issue and seeing tongues between joints is not acceptable. You are correct there. If there was only one id say let them fix it and move on but seems like there are more issues then that.

Watch them as they remove the boards. If they slude out easily then you will know they messed up. Proper glue together becomes messy when taking apart.

Check you contract with them and make sure you understand exactly what they promised to do. I have a feeling youre outta luck about the hallway but i hope im wrong.

You stated you cannot basket weave a floated floor. I need to know more.

The owner has agreed to replace the hallway and put in the basket weave. The hallway has to be floated as it has particle board subfloor. If this will create further problems, I would rather leave the hallway and work on resolving issues with other floors.

The hallway was carpeted and I didn't know what subfloor it had before the install. I work out of state, but can be reached anytime and they should have consulted me before they continued.

In order to do what is wanted, it should have had plywood underlayment, been nailed down with the basket weave.

I shouldn't have to, but I will probably end up doing that myself later.

I would not recommend floating a basketweave. Its just asking for problems down the line. As a pro i would not be willing to take the risk. Nail down or even glue down? No problem.

There should be at least 1/2 in ply or osb underneath the particle board. Particleboard is not rated for structural use.

So to nail down the floor in the hall the particle board should come up.
Then you need to figure out if thers going to be a height difference with the ajoining floor. If so the either a reducer needs to installed or depending on size another layer of ply should be installed.