Without a protective finish the wood becomes hypersensitive to moisture and temperature changes which leads to splintering.
Hardwood floor rippling.
We recently refinished a wood floor.
Rippling in a wood floor is called chatter if the ripples are less than 1 1 2 inches apart and waves if the ripples are more than 1 1 2 inches apart.
After work completed we noticed areas of visual rippling i e.
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Moisture is at 4 5.
Otherwise the floor machine will simply follow the contour ripples and probably make them even more pronounced.
I have a new 6 month old on site installation of 3 4 inch hardwood flooring that is cupping.
David land august 13 2018 at 4 29 pm.
The floor is completely smooth but visually there appear to be ribbons in the finish.
Rippling after floor sanding.
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I called the company who installed the floor and they said the moisture level was too high.
Because the wood needs to accommodate this excess moisture it moves upward and the expansion causes it to buckle.
Hardwood floors will buckle if they are subjected to excess water.
A carpenter friend suggested running a dehumidifer in the room as usually excess moisture causes this to happen we have done that but the wood does.
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Any idea as to the cause.
For example if a toilet overflows and the water reaches the hardwood hallway the hardwood planks swell with moisture.
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Solid hardwood flooring offers the broadest range of options as you can sand and scrape away up to 1 4 of an inch of the wood to remove cupping or surface mold and.
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As suggested in the wood flooring 101 section of our website the type of wood flooring you have limits the range of possible repairs for your wood floor.
Over time the finish on a hardwood floor can deteriorate.
The type of wood flooring you have affects the repair options available.