can anyone advise how to repair a warped floor?
My mate was watering my plants when i was away over Xmas and i think hes got water into the floor. So basically one plank of my wooden floor is curved up at its sides now.
It's solid oak wood i think, and not possibly to pull it all up.
Any way i can fix it, leaving it in place?
You could resoak it and then apply weight whilst it is wet and leave to dry out back to it's normal shape. Applying steam is another way but it's more difficult to keep the steam where you want it.
Scorpio, welcome to the site firstly and thanks for your advice. Sounds dangerous though, adding more water lol :-) How will i stop it from warping more the same way?
It's a really nice floor too dammit.
RustyKnight In: Newton Aycliffe
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Matt unless he was watering your plants with a hose pipe for several years there's very little chance enough water could get into stained or varnished hardwood like oak. The fact that just one plank has curled up means the water must have been concentrated on that plank so there's no way it can be caused by watering plants unless it's not oak. You sure there isn't a central heating pipe running below the plank that's been heating it up over these cold weeks?? Anyway you can hire a floor sander for a weekend for about 50 squid and that'll sort it.
Dont wet it any more, that would only work if you could dry the underneath first, let it dry for a week or two and see if it straightens, dont sand it till you'r sure it stoped straighting or you may end up with the sides curved down.
RK - its exactly where the plant has been (brought it in from the garden so it doesn't freeze like last year's passion flower did).
It's only stained, not varnished. I think water has got down between the planks and soaked that one from underneith. The ones around it are a little warped also.
There's nothing under the floor and no water could have gotten to it there any other way (it's definitely the plant, the pot is on a plate which also has a bit of water in still).
matt let it dry over a long period of time,month or so,dont apply any heat or more water,it will settle back a bit if its solid wood then if its not too bad sand it.Is it covered by house insurance? You could go for the other option and get a large hairy dog and train it to sit over the warped area thereby disguising it,just get one thats house trained!
Am I thick cos I don't get how sanding a plank will get rid of a kink/warp wouldn't it just make it thinner not flatter?
Matt, get rid of the plants then you won't have the same problem again.
it will level off the curly edges that poke into the hairy dogs bum and make him fidget,that way he can comfortably sit on the stain to hide it and any visitors wont think that he has worms
RustyKnight In: Newton Aycliffe
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Matt you're far too young to be looking after flowers! Solid oak would take months to warp from water ingress so my thoughts are it's probably laminated chipboard or MDF, be careful with the sander, you've probably got about a thou before you hit the cheap stuff
well wipe it up hun cos i reckon that the truth of what started this in the 1st place.......young un goes away for a couple off days leaves keys with a `mate` matey has a few mates round for a beer,one of them needs a wee and makes for the shrubbery,watering the plants yeah right!
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