Wavy Wood Floor

The boards are not laying completely flat.

Wavy wood floor.

Apply a primer product to the areas where you will add leveler if recommended by the leveler manufacturer. They have a wavy like appearance and you can feel the waves with your hands. Please read before you ask why i didn t just fix the foundation beams or joists. Filling large waves in subflooring mark the areas of the floor that need filling in to bring them level with the surrounding areas.

How to level a wavy and bumpy floor concrete grinder. If the humps are only about a quarter inch to a half inch and there aren t too many or you aren t working with. Sometimes even a nearby water source like flooding underneath the house can cause enough of a moisture imbalance to result in warping. The moisture imbalance allowed the boards to cup or as the consumer stated become wavy.

Most often a warped wood floor is caused by standing water or heavy moisture below the floor due to an unidentified leak or other hidden water source. Mix the floor leveling compound with water. As humidity levels increased during the summer months moisture from the crawlspace migrated up through the sub floor into the wood floor. How to fix the floor.

There was a brick chimney estimated to weigh about 2200 pounds that was si. My hickory 4 inch board floors were installed in december 2005 in a brand new home.