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Carpets, Lino & Flooring

Very bouncy newly installed engineered wood floor

Anonymous user 23/02/2024 - 3.10 PM

Hello everyone, We have builders in at the moment. They just installed new engineered wood flooring (22mm thick) in our Victorian house. Both upstairs bedrooms and the landing are very bouncy. Flooring specialist advised us that installing plywood boards and porta nailing would not be necessary in our case. However as you can see on the following video new floor is bouncy (and it looks even worse than on the video). They installed it over the original baseboards and put 3mm DPM underlay. https://youtu.be/wa3JBfMW_q8 (switch to HD mode for details) Is there anything we can do to at least reduce the bouncing and make it more solid? They are coming back tomorrow... Would really appreciate any advice, thank you!

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2 Answers

CS Flooring

Rating: 4.8 out of 5

Manchester

hello, im assuming the flooring is a tongue and groove fitting system as its 22mm. this should not have been floated on a underlay and as you said secret nailed to a suitable plywood subfloor. this is not something the "builders" should be doing as they dont have the correct training or knowledge to do. it needs taking up and refitting correctly by a professional flooring installer. check the bwfa and british standards as to the correct method.

Answered18 July 2017

Anonymous user

It's hard to see from video but it may be that they haven't left enough of a gap to allow for expansion. If it's tight at the walls this can cause it to rise. Also the wood should be removed from any packaging and should be left in the room where it is to be installed for at least a few days to acclimatize.

Answered15 July 2017