Comments on: Wood Floors And Floods: What Do You Do? https://www.builddirect.com/blog/wood-floors-floods-what/ Transforming your spaces with good design ideas, and the best materials Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:06:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.2 By: Stevan K https://www.builddirect.com/blog/wood-floors-floods-what/#comment-351234 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:06:51 +0000 http://blog.builddirect.com/?p=1891#comment-351234 Hi Susan.

I’m Stevan, and I work in the BuildDirect sales department, specializing in hardwood flooring.

2 reasons are possible for continuing buckling. Maybe the washer is still leaking. The more possible is that the water seeped underneath the board into the subfloor. Now it is the source of moisture under the floor boards, causing more swelling and buckling.

The bucking has caused damage to the natural structure of the wood, it will not go back to normal after the wood dries to the normal moisture content, and it will have to be replaced. If the probl is light buckling that has not damaged wood structure, then after drying to normal it will flatten and return to normal.

The fastest solution is to remove that part of the flooring dry the subfloor underneath the boards (or replace it) and install new flooring over it. I am talking only about the area affected with buckling not the whole floor.

I hope this will help.

]]> By: Susan https://www.builddirect.com/blog/wood-floors-floods-what/#comment-351233 Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:54:24 +0000 http://blog.builddirect.com/?p=1891#comment-351233 Hi! I’m hoping you might have an answer to this question. We purchased a new washer from a major appliance store and it started to leak into our kitchen onto our hardwood floors. We didn’t notice the leak until the floors started to buckle. The company has, over three months or so, stalled and stalled in its effort to exonerate itself from having to pay for the replacement of the kitchen floor. I called them the other day to say I thought maybe the unit was leaking again because the floor is continuing to rise right at the threshold of the washer/dryer unit closet. Is it possible that there is NOT a leak and that existing moisture is continuing to cause the floors to rise?

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