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Had a whole section of engineered plank pop up on me last week
It was a big job in a new build over in Springfield, about 400 square feet of that click-lock stuff. The homeowner cranked the heat way up before the floor had time to settle. Came back two days later and a whole 10-foot run was buckled. Had to pull the baseboard and trim the end wall to get the expansion gap back. Anyone else run into this with the crazy temp swings lately?
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janac516d agoRising Star
Read somewhere that humidity matters more than temp, right?
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aaron_fox1mo ago
Used to think the whole "let it acclimate" thing was mostly for the installers to cover their backs. Had a job last summer where the AC went out in a finished house for a week before we got the floors in. Place was a sauna. We put the planks down anyway because we were on a tight schedule. Three months later, got the callback. Same buckling issue along an outside wall. That one cost me. Now I make a big deal about the temp and humidity being right for at least two days before we even bring the boxes inside.
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the_kevin1mo ago
Man, I was right there with you. I figured it was just a box to check on the paperwork. But we had a similar thing happen with some wide plank oak in a sunroom addition. It looked fine for a month, then every single seam near the sliding door opened up when the heat hit. That one job taught me more than any manual ever did.
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