Below are summaries of questions we ve fielded over the years.
Floor wood has gaps between tiles.
But to answer a common question.
This strip can either meet the tile floor directly or can have a lip over style.
The most common wood species we hear complaints about with gapping and cracks is maple.
Winter in chicago.
We had a beautiful maple floor installed in july of this year.
Engineered hardwood flooring is designed to minimize gaps due to expansion and contraction of the wood.
We bought a new house that has hardwood flooring in the foyer and kitchen.
Questions from our readers.
How to fill gaps between vinyl floor tiles.
These days many companies sell special devices designed to make it easier to close small gaps in hardwood and laminate flooring.
Yes it can still have gaps.
Traditionally vinyl tiles are manufactured in such a way that when they are installed they are tight and square to each other with no gaps in.
Is this an installation problem or refinishing problem.
Gapping in engineered hardwood can be due to many factors including but not limited to the material s manufacturing changes in humidity and the type and quality of the installation.
Learn how to fix floating floor gaps with a simple and inexpensive diy floor gap fixer.
A single transition strip that acts as a ramp from the lower hardwood floor to the higher tile floor.
Just bought a house the flooring has a couple of gaps in th middle of the hallway i hope to fix it with a hard wood gap tool that you can place between the base board and the first floor board and push the boards together working as a lever hopfully it will close the gap in the middle of the floor.
Some i can even put a dime nickel and quarter down the gaps.
We are in the house 4 months and noticed wide gaps between the planks.
A marble or granite strip that abuts to the tile floor this strip then adjoins to the lower floor.
Purchase a floor gap fixer tool.
Lord knows we have.
If you have laminate or engineered flooring there s a good chance you ve seen gaps develop between some of your planks.