Hardwood Floors Popping And Cracking

This time of year the furnace goes on and with generally lower humidity levels in the house some contraction will likely occur.

Hardwood floors popping and cracking.

The sound happens. 1 the staples were very close together and splits along the tongue were produced as the staples were driven. The hardwood floors are installed over plywood. Try to control the humidity levels in the house.

A product that is hygroscopic and reacts to its ever changing environment will likely move around throughout its service life and develop some sort of squeak crackle or pop. It is part of living with a natural organic product. Two main factors were causing the problems. Any ideas before we go back to the installer.

In various locations we hear a popping or cracking sound in hardwood floors. If your wood floor is already down this might mean you have to pull up the section that squeaks to repair the subfloor and then put down a new section of flooring. All wood floors make noises or eventually will. They are incredibly strong and add a level of elegance to any household.

My guess especially since it is a newer floor is that it is moving slightly according to changes in humidity in the house. If your floors are nailed down to the subfloor the popping noise could be coming from the nails. In either case strategies for. Some background the floors are likely original 1968.

While this doesn t mean your floors are defective there are various reasons it can occur. This would likely be the floor shrinking. Over time the boards are starting to make a crackling sound when you walk on them. Creaking popping and snapping sounds can emanate from a hardwood floor that has been nailed to a wood subfloor as well as one that has been glued to concrete.

Especially if the milling of the tongue and groove happened to be very tight you could get a popping sound from the pressure the board is under as it pulls slightly away from the matching rows. This should stop in time. Floors that make a popping sound. You probably don t have as many enemies as the tokugawas so the creaking squeaking and cracking sounds from your hardwood or laminate floor are just an annoyance.

Movement in the flooring system is generally the cause of noises in hardwood flooring. But these floors are typically attached to the floor joists. This is not the plywood moving on the floor joists. Hardwood floors are a common flooring choice for homeowners.

Solutions for the creaking range from sprinkling talcum powder on the floorboards to screwing down the boards or even the subfloor. Not directly over the floor joists as they were in very old homes.