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Hint: This is a picture of a floor in a vacant bank-owned home.
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Dear Dave:
Happy New Year!
There is a lot wrong in the picture above!!! Something has happened structurally to cause this would be my guess. Possibly there has been movement of a post that has pushed the floor and baseboard up in this section. Maybe there was some expanding soil that caused this movement. You would have to fix the cause of this before you could fix the floor.
Now, please be sure to give us your answer.
Sincerely,
Marcia
Water leak of some type got on the floor and when dried cause the wood floor to seperate, etc.
I’d say the floor was installed without any room for expansion. So, when it got warm, it buckled.
I am going with some kind of water damage. If it is bank owned the power is probably off resulting in frozen pipes or a sump pump not working.
The floor was installed incorrectly and didn’t have room to expand when there was water or humidity involved. Of course, that glove shouldn’t be there either, so maybe that’s what’s wrong with the photo…
All is good! Dave you found the glove I lost when I installed the carpet, I can’t beleive I left it under the padding. My right hand has been chilly for 10 years.
Thanks Dave,
You are the best.
The only time I’ve seen this much floor displacement was when a home flooded from broken pipes. The volume of water caused the underlayment or subfloor to bow and displace as well as the top hardwood resulting in the amount of buckling visible in your picture.
Is this a test or a guess?
the foundation and walls are caving in, putting pressure on the floor and causing it to buckle.
A tree root has caused the floor to buckle.
It looks as if there was no expansion room left around the edges of the room when the floor was originally put down.
with the extreme cold so far this winter I’d guess to say this damage was casused by water from a broken water service. The rupture occurring due to the line freezing?
I would say severe settling from either the foundation cracking or a support beam below that has settled, causing the floor to buckle.
Looks like a frozen pipe underneath that caused the whole floor in that section to heave