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Hi, and thanks in advance.
I have laid the whole of my house (well the dry areas) with solid wood flooring, and everything is fine. In fact it is so fine that a friend saw it and asked if I would lay one in his front room. Being a kind and generous soul, I agreed.
The floor was laid a couple of months ago. The wood was given a week to acclimatise. The sub floor is asphalt. All the floors I had laid before were either onto concrete or wood, so being unsure I chose the safe route and put down a dpm in case it was needed. I then used floormaster self adhesive underlay to install the planks onto. This is exactly the same method as I have used throughout my house. Expansion gaps of 10mm all round were maintained.
All of this is to try establish I have had experience of laying these floors, and I did it properly (within the context of my experience).
My friend asked me to have a look at it a couple of days ago because he said there had been some movement. I expected some of the planks might have moved a couple of mm- the underlay does seem to allow this sometimes. When I got there I was shocked to see one plank had been pushed about 20mm out of alignment, and the "fault line" could be traced back about 8 rows of planks. One of the boards appears to have cupped significantly, and looks as if it is/was under a lot of tension.
I have no idea what could have caused it. He does have a new baby, and said they had been bathing the baby on a rug on the affected area, but I know my own floor has coped perfectly with the usual family spillages. If the rug had been damp for a week or so I can't see it would have caused that much movement- but maybe it has.
Does anyone have any ideas what might have caused it? Perhaps as importantly how can we fix it- please remember this underlay is a pig to remove! I feel awful and responsible for my friends floor!
I have laid the whole of my house (well the dry areas) with solid wood flooring, and everything is fine. In fact it is so fine that a friend saw it and asked if I would lay one in his front room. Being a kind and generous soul, I agreed.
The floor was laid a couple of months ago. The wood was given a week to acclimatise. The sub floor is asphalt. All the floors I had laid before were either onto concrete or wood, so being unsure I chose the safe route and put down a dpm in case it was needed. I then used floormaster self adhesive underlay to install the planks onto. This is exactly the same method as I have used throughout my house. Expansion gaps of 10mm all round were maintained.
All of this is to try establish I have had experience of laying these floors, and I did it properly (within the context of my experience).
My friend asked me to have a look at it a couple of days ago because he said there had been some movement. I expected some of the planks might have moved a couple of mm- the underlay does seem to allow this sometimes. When I got there I was shocked to see one plank had been pushed about 20mm out of alignment, and the "fault line" could be traced back about 8 rows of planks. One of the boards appears to have cupped significantly, and looks as if it is/was under a lot of tension.
I have no idea what could have caused it. He does have a new baby, and said they had been bathing the baby on a rug on the affected area, but I know my own floor has coped perfectly with the usual family spillages. If the rug had been damp for a week or so I can't see it would have caused that much movement- but maybe it has.
Does anyone have any ideas what might have caused it? Perhaps as importantly how can we fix it- please remember this underlay is a pig to remove! I feel awful and responsible for my friends floor!
