Hi! I'm looking for some advice. Almost one year ago on first floor in my house I installed solid Merbau hardwood flooring directly on to chipboard using 2 component polyurethane adhesive. Everything was looking great, but slowly over time the floor started showing wider and wider splits at some joint lines. It's even gotten worse now, since the heating is on most of the time (Scotland). I'm not sure what can I do to stop it from happening. Will nailing the floor down help prevent the floor from shrinking? Is it possible that the lack of joints at door thresholds between the rooms might amplify the issue? The same floor installed on ground floor directly on to concrete screed using the same adhesive looks great and shows no issues at all. Any advice from your side would be very appreciated!
Probably movement in the chipboard and the wrong system used To install in first place, should of played the floor first to make stable and then secret nail method of install, doubt there's anything you can do to repair that to be honest other than maybe get a professional to come sand fill and reseal it?
Looks like we've got one of those weird spamming new members that posts meaningless jibberish on every thread. I say one there are two but it's clearly the same person!
