We purchased an engineered wood floor and installation. The floor clics/snaps together and is specifically designed to be floated. After noticing a sticky/cruchy sound when walking on several areas and reading the manufacturer's literature closer, we realized the floor is stapled down and has no expansion gaps on the sides. The crunchy/sticky sound appears to be the floor being pushed down onto the tar paper when placing our body weight on our foot and when we lift the foot (i.e., placing our body weight on the other foot) the floor sounds like its raising up and the crunchy sticky sound we are hearing is the tar paper. The installers fixed the cunchy/sticky sound on one end by pulling the floor up and glueng it down. That part of the floor now feels and sounds fine but the cruchy/sticky sound has now moved to the area adjacent to the side that is glued down. Should I be worried about future problems such as buckling? Why or why not.
call a company rep. way to much info required to qualify an answer.
i might somewhat have wood flooring by way of fact there's a guy and a 9 year previous boy that stay right here they gained't take their shoes off in the domicile, i think of it particularly is much less annoying to comb flooring than to scrub carpet
I would think problems are inevitable. Floating floors are designed to shift with respect to the underlying structure (that's why they're floating); gluing down a section will force the floor to remain in the same location. If, for example, some water is spilled on the floor, or if there is a large temperature or humidity fluctuation, the floor will have nowhere to go to accommodate the forces and it will most likely buckle or delaminate under the stress.
There isn't suppose to be tar paper under wood floors, to begin with, the purchased engineered wood is suppose to have a backing to do what the laid down tar papers does, if that is what you are describing. Being stapled down, I have to assume you laid the engineered floor over plywood substrate. The crunchy sounds might be the wood strips expanding and contracting along the interlocking edges, sawdust/dirt not completely removed when the flooring was put down, or tarpaper sticking as you describe. Gluing the floor down will lead to problems over time, as the subfloor naturally expands and contracts due to temperature changes and aging, and the glued down areas restricts these movements, causing either the subfloor or the flooring, whichever is weaker, to crack, check, etc. Hope this helps.
