Comments on: Floating Hardwood floors not installing right?

By: SIMEON S

SIMEON S — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:10:27 +0000

Take all the un-opened boxes and your receipt (and all the opened boxes if possible) back to the store that sold them.
Get your money back. "Junk in equals Junk out". You can't get good results unless you start with good materials. Buy a brand that cost more per foot that doesn't snap together or has own glue. Buy a design that you must glue each piece as you put it down. Only glue two edges of each piece. Don't over glue, that is, don't fill the groove with glue, glue the top edge of the tongue. Wipe off the excess as you hammer, yes tap with hammer and wooden block. I just last year installed Thomasville flooring from Home Depot and it went down fine. I installed some costly flooring with its own glue and I bruised it all over the floor because I was hitting it too hard to get the edges together.
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Been putting down engineered flooring on and off for years, and for my wife professionally done isn't good enough.

By: Mark C

Mark C — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:56:57 +0000

You could have a bad batch of flooring, it happens.
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By: sensible_man

sensible_man — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:35:42 +0000

Depends on the quality of the flooring. As the price goes down, so does the quality. This means that the fit of the pieces is more difficult to achieve. The "male" part may need to be tapped into the "female joint with a rubber mallet. The cutters used to make the groove may have been dull.
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By: pickmefirstplz

pickmefirstplz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:26:42 +0000

you have to position it just right across the whole piece take two pieces from box and just and practice take a piece of flooring cut off two pieces four inches long go to kitchen table and put the two pieces together
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By: Bammer

Bammer — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:23:19 +0000

are your sub-floors even?? sound like the flooring is in a bind. And are you using the tapping block to set the tongue and grooves tight??
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By: lonetigerwolf

lonetigerwolf — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:23:10 +0000

It doesnt sound sound like your installing the tongue into the groove at the proper angle to me. is it a tongue and groove floor system?
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