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Floorboard Gap

  • 10-07-2019 1:54pm
    #1
    davidm25
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 84 ✭✭


    Hi all

    We have a gap between some floorboards in one of our rooms. At its widest it's about 1cm. It changes slightly from time to time throughout the year (moisture, temperature, etc) but never closes entirely. It's been this way for a few years now and the time has come to do something about it. Has anyone come across this before and put a fix in place, or have any suggestions for how to approach it, etc. There's a pic available at the link below.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0sozBU6BRyCWmpWVk1zYjZNTGxzQVpaZ3c3OGVablVvUWtJ/view

    Thanks in advance,
    D


Comments

  • #2
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,764 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Put a rug over it?

    Really think its too small a problem to fix.

    Ideally you want the gap like that to occur at the edges of the wood floor that way they are hidden under the skirting board.

    It might be that you have very heavy furniture plus the edges butted up to the wall and or threshold strips making the middle of the floor only place left for expansion and contraction. The boards around the edges might also be pinned/nailed to the joists again making any movement show up in the middle.

    My point is the floor isn't going to stop moving you just need to engineer where the gaps occur and unless you are prepared to take the boards up and relay them then that may not be possible.


  • #3
    Calahonda52
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,889 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    strictly speaking not a floor board, its either laminated or engineered

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • #4
    policarp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,667 ✭✭✭policarp


    davidm25 wrote: »
    Hi all

    We have a gap between some floorboards in one of our rooms. At its widest it's about 1cm. It changes slightly from time to time throughout the year (moisture, temperature, etc) but never closes entirely. It's been this way for a few years now and the time has come to do something about it. Has anyone come across this before and put a fix in place, or have any suggestions for how to approach it, etc. There's a pic available at the link below.

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0sozBU6BRyCWmpWVk1zYjZNTGxzQVpaZ3c3OGVablVvUWtJ/view

    Thanks in advance,
    D
    If it's just one small area, try to pinch it together.
    If it's more you might need to redo the floor.


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