Waves In Hardwood Floors

Just a few more questions if i may.

Waves in hardwood floors.

It looks like a stone that was dropped in water with the ripples flowing out. 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. How to level a wavy and bumpy floor. 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.

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. The floor has waves you can definitely notice them but they are more apparent when the light hits them. Something as simple as. My floor is a very dark ebony and the finish is satin.

Contractors often confuse chatter with wave. 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. The wood flooring looks to be completely intact to subfloor. Wave imperfections stop a few feet from the walls.

Although it is possible to get waves from a springy floor. A rotary sander is needed. My house is 25 years old. 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.

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. I have a question about the wave. If you had a moisture meter i bet the reading of the floor would be over 9. It looks like there s a wave in the flooring.

Since the floor is very dark without much of the grain showing through they are more obvious then if the floor were lighter. Have i done something wrong while installing the hardwood floor or is the sub floor uneven. Place it on the floor for an hour or so to get a reading. The refinisher needs to know what type of equipment and process to use in order to properly finish a sprung floor.

I went under the house and noticed that in the lifted area there s a support beam directly in that area. One of the aspects of building with natural products is that nature can sometimes win over despite the best of modern engineering.