About 3 years ago I placed an engineered maple floor in the Kitchen. This winter the floor adhesive is failing. As you walk over an area by the sink the floor pops as your foot is removed. The pop sound is from the adhesive sticking and unsticking. The instructions were followed on the use of the proper trowel. The adhesive was FlorCraft wood plank and parquet adhesive. I may have exceeded open time without realizing it, at that time, since some trimming was being done. The bottom of the floor is open to the basement. I could drill from below to gain access to the adhesive layer. Is there some type of very liquid adhesive I could inject from below to remedy this?
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Is there anything out of the ordinary.............
or is there something in the ordinary?
Is there a floor/toe kick register under that sink base cab? Has any water been leaking under there either supply or drain?
Heat concentration in one spot might shrink either the maple or subfloor.
Any adhesive you could "inject" would have to be something with good stick, yet thin enough to slip in that very small void between the sub and finished floor (and still not liquid enough to spill out the hole b/4 you could plug it. I've never done this and know of no product that would fit the bill. Something like titebond wouldn't adhere to the already glue coated floor. Maybe there's an epoxy that could be thinned............
Best of luck.
Yeah, probably the best bet would be penetrating epoxy. And probably one should weigh down the area for a couple of days after injecting it.