I have a small room that has a prefinished/engineered wood floor over a concrete slab. The installation was done by a contractor about eight years ago. There are several spots where the wood has separated from the slab;not at the edges, more into the room. You can feel these areas give slightly with your foot. I do not remember much about the installation, other than the concrete was sealed and coated with something to level it. Is there any way to correct this, other than ripping up the floor and laying a new one down? The only thing that I can think of, would be to inject an adhesive of some type (would have to be pretty thin) into the voids, press them down and hope that they bond with the slab and hold. Hopefully someone out there has dealt with a situation like this;all I ever get are blank looks when I query people that I think might have an answer.
Thanks for looking.
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Sounds like the wood has absorbed moisture and expanded, and it is pushing up the planks in a few places.
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tthere is a 2 part epoxy glue floor stores should have or could get you one the kit is a mixing gun staws and glue you drill small hole in center of area shoot glue stand on spot 30 seconds or so fill hole at our store the installers charge 75.00 per hole
I would try some expanding foam in a can.
Cut a !" of so hole in center of a sheet of 18 x18 or larger 6 mil plastic shield.
Tape the edges down so the center of the plastic is over the center of the bouncing area,
Tape over the hole in the center of the plastic.
Drill a hole the same size of the straw for the expanding foam through the tape and wood at the center of the plastic square.
Insert the straw and squirt some foam in there,
Weight it down over night. put another sheet of plastic down so weight does not adhere to plastic due to overflow of foam out of hole. (bucket of drywall compound, 5 gal pail of harden cement.
Pull up your plastic shield.
Then plug with matching wood plug.
I never tried it but recommended it to a friend with a floating floor that bounced due to unlevel concrete he said it worked just fine.
Wallyo
Wallyo
Edited 1/6/2009 6:15 pm ET by wallyo