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How to fix a bulging floor
Release time: 2023-04-12
Not left expansion joints or too narrow: when laying the floor to the corner, should leave a gap as an expansion joint, and then covered with a foot board, some owners in order to clean, wood flooring paving is not reserved for expansion joints as required, or let the paving workers to leave the seam as thin as possible, which will also make the floor can not stretch, moisture absorption and expansion by humid air easy to arch up.
Flooring under the grass-roots arch, if the installation of flooring before the original ground already has solid wood flooring, installed after the floor because the original flooring moisture drum up, so it will also lead to the floor arch up.
Room through the store: more than two rooms in the installation of flooring, door sets at the door does not add the buckle, in the moisture, dampness when the two rooms floor horizontal line stretch, will cause in the room doorway at each other involved in the situation, so that the floor arched up.
The process of flooring installation, if there are foreign objects left under the floor, not cleaned up in time, this will also cause the floor to arch.
Often with a more humid mop mopping, resulting in the ground with water infiltration, the floor moisture arch.
Wooden floor paving area is larger or wider, and did not take segmentation measures.
Floor bulging how to avoid:
Before the floor begins to lay, ensure that the concrete or insulation materials are dry, if there is a little moisture, you must wait for the material to dry before laying the floor.
Moisture content control does not exceed the average annual moisture content of the area, if you encounter wet weather, remember to open the window ventilation to avoid the floor bulge due to water molecules in the air.
Flooring and wall and ground fixings should be added between a certain thickness of wood wedge, so that the floor and its distance to maintain 8 mm-12 mm.
Floor width direction laying length ≥ 6m, or floor length direction laying length ≥ 15m, it is appropriate to use reasonable spacing shrinkage seam and buckle transition.
Before installing the floor, clean the ground, do not leave foreign matter.
Wooden fence should do hole slot connected, and connected with the floor surface ventilation hole, each house floor surface ventilation hole not less than two, skirting board ventilation hole not less than two per side, ventilation hole should be kept open to facilitate air circulation.
Try to use a drier mop to wipe the floor, if you encounter water splashed on the ground, you should clean up the water stains as soon as possible.
After the floor bulge solution:
① remove the arching wood and surrounding flooring to ventilate and disperse air, can alleviate the arching problem.
② large area pry up the floor at the arch, wait for the ground, keel dry, and then the floor laid back.
③ pay attention to maintain the normal contact between the floor and the outside world, so that it is balanced with the atmospheric humidity.
④If the expansion joint is blocked, take out the expansion joint.
⑤ pavement flooring will leave a certain small gap in advance, to the floor to leave "thermal expansion and contraction" of space
⑥If the arch is serious, can consider replacing. Replace the new floor, repair, take down the deformed floor block, the ground with cement paving, replaced with a new floor, so that the floor will be flat as before.
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