Waves In Hardwood Floors

Contractors often confuse chatter with wave.

Waves in hardwood floors. One of the aspects of building with natural products is that nature can sometimes win over despite the best of modern engineering. In the flooring industry is this wave a common problem that people have to live with. 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. I went under the house and noticed that in the lifted area there s a support beam directly in that area.

Wave imperfections stop a few feet from the walls. The wood flooring looks to be completely intact to subfloor. My house is 25 years old. 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.

It looks like a stone that was dropped in water with the ripples flowing out. The refinisher needs to know what type of equipment and process to use in order to properly finish a sprung floor. How to level a wavy and bumpy floor. If you had a moisture meter i bet the reading of the floor would be over 9.

Since the floor is very dark without much of the grain showing through they are more obvious then if the floor were lighter. 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. 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. After 3 days i entered the home to find that there was a wave pattern throughout all 4 rooms now even on the one that didn t have the problem originally.

It looks like there s a wave in the flooring. Place it on the floor for an hour or so to get a reading. A rotary sander is needed. The floor has waves you can definitely notice them but they are more apparent when the light hits them.

Although it is possible to get waves from a springy floor. I have a question about the wave. 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. Something as simple as.

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. Have i done something wrong while installing the hardwood floor or is the sub floor uneven.