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Semi solid oak floor "lifting"!

  • 24-01-2012 10:46am
    #1
    LadFromLimerick
    Registered Users Posts: 78 ✭✭


    Hi all,
    The boards of our living room floor have started to expand and lift in recent months, something to do with the weather maybe, at one point they appear to be several inches from the ground. I'm guessing this is a job for a carpenter? Can anyone offer any advice as to what need to be done?
    Many Thanks!


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  • #2
    bbam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,410 ✭✭✭bbam


    If your house is very humid it may cause this, do you have lots of condensation on the windows?

    Have you considered the possibility there is a leak under the floor?

    If your confident you don't have a leak you could try a de humidifier in the room to see if the floor contracts again


  • #3
    mickdw
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,385 ✭✭✭✭mickdw


    Was there sufficient space left around the edges when fitting the floor? If not, it will lift. One tight point will be enough to cause it too


  • #4
    North West
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 439 ✭✭North West


    Hi
    Is the room square that the flooring is laid ?. Your problem is expansion related. Put up a picture of room/floor. It could be stuck at one wall/maybe at an external corner wouldnt know till i see photo. The quicker you sort out the quicker floor can be fixed.Usually a min 15mm expansion allowance should be left on both walls for expansion and also around any fixed objects in room e.g external corners/fire hearths( unless floor is under hearth). Around radiators twice the diameter of pipe. (Pipe should be centred in hole )

    quick check. get a piece wire about 4" long put a 90 deg bend on the end of it about half inch. Find a place under skirting to put wire in turn he 90deg piece down so it goes behind the flooring and push the wire in and out to feel if there any place between the floor and the wall. If there is not you need to take off skirting trim floor back about 15mm to relieve the pressure. Try tis in different parts across the wall.
    do this only on the width side of boards because on the len you do not get much expansion.

    an oak floor will expand approx 1/16th inch per board on the width of the board. This is normal and why you need adequite expansion allowances whe fitting.Measure the amount of boards width wise across your floor and multiply that by 1/16th. That is the total allowance should have been left on your floor.
    Nw


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