How To Fix Warped Engineered Floor Boards

Warping manifests as gaps between the boards.

How to fix warped engineered floor boards.

How to straighten a warped floor. Sometimes even a nearby water source like flooding underneath the house can cause enough of a moisture imbalance to result in warping. Solid woods expand and contract with humidity changes and water leaks affecting the shape of your boards. Over the course of time this will lead to warping.

Laminate and engineered woods are manufactured to resist humidity changes leaving them the same size forever. Wood responds to changes in temperature or humidity by warping and that can be bad news for your hardwood floor. To avoid warped floors choosing a laminate or engineered wood floor might be a better option over solid wood. Many floor boards that are warped will need to be removed and replaced.

Sanding down a warped floor. Wood floors usually become warped because of water damage although too much sunlight can also cause boards to warp. This works best for warps that come from humidity or a water spill rather than from a leak that originated below your flooring. Bowing or warping of floor boards can occur for several reasons.

If water has seeped into the boards they may swell against one another which can cause the bow. The first method to fix a warped floor is to sand it. Sand down the bump in your flooring until it is level with the rest of the floor.