Comment on Flooring Pop
yedfixy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI did not do this installation, so any history of the install would be speculation.
Comment on Flooring Pop
yedfixy@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI did not do this installation, so any history of the install would be speculation.
teft@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Well you can see the courses are wrong just from the picture so you should fix that first. It's fairly easy to do since one is already popped up.
To figure out if there is an expansion gap just take off one of you base boards. There should be a centimeter or so gap near the walls. If there isn't that's going to suck a lot more than just redoing the pattern since you might have to start trimming an edge or two of the entire room.
yedfixy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unfortunately there is no baseboard to speak of in the bathroom. Here’s a better picture of the floor meeting the wall. This extends all around the room.
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teft@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah, it looks like whoever installed it didn't know what they were doing. You should be able to fix it fairly easy but it's going to have to be the whole floor since there doesn't appear to be a gap. You'd have to pull the whole floor up and reinstall them all making sure to leave a 0.5-1 cm gap around the perimeter. The person probably didn't leave a gap because it will look like shit and stuff will get in it since there is no baseboard. A better option might be to pull it and put vinyl planks in there instead of laminate. Vinyl planks have less thermal expansion than wood or laminate so you wouldn't have to leave an unsightly gap or install baseboards.
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Is this not tile?
yedfixy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not sure if it changes anything, but they added what looks like a dark grout or potentially caulking between the wall/floor seam.
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