What are the negatives with installing a floating wood floor?
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You can set a lit cigarette on one and let it burn to the filter, it will not hurt the floor..set one leaky gallon of water in a pantry on your laminate floor, and the whole corner buckles.
WATER IS A LAMINATE FLOORS ENEMY
Other than that, mine are eight years old, and I love them.
I would think with the quality of material these days, nothing.
I use to live next to a neighbor who had a floating wood floor and it buckled. But that again was a long time ago and the wood floor strips were individual.
The kind they have today locks together, I have some to put in my dining room, someday. Hubby had a knee replacement.
Hi - Are you referring to tongue and grooved chipboard layed over polystyrene? If so, the substate that the polystyrene needs to be fairly flat. Large dips can result in some flexing of the floor. The joints of the flooring should also be glued. I have experienced these floors where the substrate wasn't flat and it was like walking on a trampoline!
just the pre printed wood look
It all depends on the product you have purchased. Tarkett is the worst floating wood floor on the market, the gaps won't close completely and it creaks something awful. The negatives with most floating floors that snap together is during the install the locking system gets damaged and in about a month you will develope gapping all over the place, but that is on the older floors like pergo presto and shaw laminates. The new stuff like pergo natural, and dupont the locking system is real strong. You will have a hard time damaging the system. Thats about the only thing I can think of and I've been laying floors for 12yrs now.
I've heard only praise for this new tech. As long as you lay your plastic barrier properly so it is truly a FLOATER
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