Engineered Wood Flooring warping question
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Comments (8)icenet, I am not Floorguy or a professional so I can't answer your exact question so I will wait for floorguy to answer it a little better than I can. But I do know that if there is deep scratches or pee stains that can't be removed a 4 MM floor most likely can be sanded down to remove the damage without replacing the floor. Maybe floorguy can correct me if I am wrong. I had a 2 MM engineered wood floor here that lasted 18 years in my townhouse that did get very worn out looking losing most of the finish on time and eventually got totally ruined from the water damage when my central air conditioner failed and squirted water that flooded the floor lifting the veneeer in layers along with the plywood and that is when I found out my floors were not solid oak floors. The finish really did only have a 15 year life like the Bruce Engineered Glen Cove Flooring Planks's warranty says it had. The finish on top along with the hardness of the wood and the thickness I feel from my samples all determine the quality of the floor and how long it will last but then again you have to compare the cost of sanding down a floor and refinishing it to replacing planks that cost less. I hope Floorguy comes back to answer the question more accurately and maybe some other flooring people since I am also curious being that I will be buying an engineered wood floor after my busy season ends. For now, this was my break and now I have to get back to work despite it being a Sunday and holiday. I love Maple Wood but having it unstained would be too light for my home office I feel despite showing the beauty of the grain and keeping the room light and airy. We'd love pics. Happy Easter to those that celebrate. It is still cold today which is amazing since it is almost the middle of April. But it is sunny outside and that brings light into my room making it easier to work....See MoreEngineered Wood Floor Warped Out of Box
Comments (10)Don't touch the boxes. Contact your point of sales IMMEDIATELY. Take photos of the not wrapped vs. wrapped boxes. It sounds like you may have a shipment of returns in with a shipment of originals. Don't even try to sort this out. The shipment (especially the unwrapped boxes) needs to be returned. The faster you do this, the faster it will be resolved. Any attempt to install this means you take FULL responsibility. In the flooring world we have an idiom: "A laid floor is a paid floor". In other words, any attempt to install VISIBLY defective product means you ACCEPT the defective product and give up all rights to have it replaced. I wouldn't even try to do this without first lodging a complaint and starting the whole return/replacement process....See MoreEngineered wood planks are warped
Comments (7)Garages are notorious for dampness. The reason: the concrete slab in a garage is NOT sealed from below. The moisture in the ground (all slabs sit on moist ground BTW) seeps up and into the garage MUCH MUCH more than in the house. Your engineered planks are twisting because they have WAY too much moisture in them. If they are factory finished, the FINISHED side will gather moisture in a very different way than the unfinished side. And the plied middle will take moisture in a different way than the wear layer and from the bottom layer. Whew! Now how to deal with this stuff. Bring the boxes into the house. Leave them CLOSED. Lay them flat. Do NOT stack the boxes if you can help it. They need to be laid flat. This is 'storage' only. Acclimation comes later. Once you have brought in the HVAC people and they have turned on the heat AND THE HUMIDITY CONTROL (which you paid for because it was an added cost that you already agreed to carry because you knew you were going to have wood ... right?). The house will take 10 days to slowly bring everything up to 'living conditions'. Once the house has been kept in the habitable range for those 10 days, you now start the 'acclimation' process. Yes. I said 'start'. We aren't even close to being done yet. Habitable Range = Relative Humidity (RH): between *35% - 60% (manufacturer's requirements trump 'average' living conditions) *wood prefers a 10% window to live in (like 45% - 55%) = no wild swings Temperature Range: *55 - 85 deg F (**15 - 28 C) but the manufacturer's requirements trump 'average' living conditions *wood prefers a 10 deg. range to live in like 65 F - 75F (**18 - 23 C) Your wood flooring professional will come in and take some random readings of the wood planks (10% is common or every 10th plank). S/he will also do the same for the subfloors. They will go away and come back a few days later (or as much as a week or two later...depending on how the first readings go). They will do the same tests once more. They will arrange to start laying the product as soon as the readings are inside the appropriate range (NWFA handbook recommendations for wood moisture content). The highly paid flooring professional will take RH (relative humidity readings) in the house; document weather and exterior humidity each day the floor is installed. And keep track (written down) like a hammer-swinging accountant - on a spread sheet if possible - during every day it takes to install the floor. The documents the installer creates are then handed to you - the floor's owner - so that you have documented evidence that s/he did everything by the book. The installer will keep a copy for her/his records (to prove that s/he did everything by the book). All of this is to maintain warranty. Needless to say, NOTHING can start until the HVAC and the HUMIDITY control is up and running (properly - day and night) for 10 days. And please make sure your well paid/trained flooring installer creates these documents. Every stick of warranty requires documentation AND strict adherence to manufacturer's requirements....See MoreLay engineered wood floor over existing engineered wood floor?
Comments (6)Thanks all. We removed the floor. Unfortunately as expected, that exposed more of a mess. Luckily, no "damage" to subfloor per say, but it looked like the previous folks who installed the floor used leveling "float" on pretty much the entire 700 sqft and in some place as thick as almost 1.5 inches. This made it very difficult to remove the layers of flooring (combination of engineered hardwood glued down and some solid wood nailed down to plywood, which was glued and nailed down to "leveling float", which was poured over OSB subfloor). The demo guy tried to get to the OSB subfloor as best he could but he stopped after 2 days of demo and when the OSB was starting to get damaged as it came up with some of the float. We have now moved on to filling the 3 very low areas with some plywood and then pouring self leveling float over the entire floor to try to fill in all to "holes" that were created by trying to pull up the previous float. I guess I am officially welcomed to home ownership....See Morejosephene_gw
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