Waves In Hardwood Floors

If you have a poorly secured sub floor joists spaced wider than 16â on center to thin a sub floor poorly nailed hardwood any number of things can affect the sanding.

Waves in hardwood floors.

Although it is possible to get waves from a springy floor. Just a few more questions if i may. It looks like there s a wave in the flooring. The wood flooring looks to be completely intact to subfloor.

I have a question about the wave. The refinisher needs to know what type of equipment and process to use in order to properly finish a sprung floor. A rotary sander is needed. Since the floor is very dark without much of the grain showing through they are more obvious then if the floor were lighter.

How to care for a pre finished hardwood floor rippling in a wood floor is called chatter if the ripples are less than 1 1 2 inches apart and waves if the ripples are more than 1 1 2 inches apart. My house is 25 years old. Place it on the floor for an hour or so to get a reading. After the floor had performed well for a year and a half the floor suffered a serious failure within the period of a few weeks and had to be replaced.

Wave imperfections stop a few feet from the walls. How to level a wavy and bumpy floor. The failure was due to a hidden defect in the original wall construction that allowed air to enter the space between the ceiling of the first floor and the subfloor of the second level. Have i done something wrong while installing the hardwood floor or is the sub floor uneven.

One of the aspects of building with natural products is that nature can sometimes win over despite the best of modern engineering. It looks like a stone that was dropped in water with the ripples flowing out. I went under the house and noticed that in the lifted area there s a support beam directly in that area. Go to your nearest electronics store and purchase a little device called a hygrometer which gives you the temperature and relative humidity of the room.

Something as simple as. Contractors often confuse chatter with wave. I just had hardwood floors installed in 3 rooms of my home and asked them to resurface the kitchen and hallway which already had hardwood. Wave is a repeat of the first imperfection that runs repeatedly over the floor and is typically more than 1 1 2 inches apart.

My floor is a very dark ebony and the finish is satin. In the flooring industry is this wave a common problem that people have to live with.