Do you currently live in a home that has not had any renovations in a while? Many homeowners who have moved into older homes or have neglected home renovations tend to notice structural and cosmetic issues. One of the problems you may experience is popping noises when you walk over your wood flooring.
If you encounter this problem, you should make sure to have it properly diagnosed by a professional as it could be several different things. Hardwood floor care is made more achievable with assistance, so there is no use wasting time trying to fix it yourself. Outlined below are some of these reasons why these sounds may be happening.
A professional can accurately diagnose popping sounds.
Reasons For Popping or Cracking Sounds
One of the primary reasons you may hear these sounds is a hardwood floor installation issue where the nails driven into the subfloor are popping up, causing the flooring to become loose. In a more complicated situation, the reason for the popping could be because the flooring did not acclimate to the temperature within your home before the hardwood floor installation happened.
Some older builders and people who attempted home renovations on their own may have made errors when putting in your wood flooring, and over time, their mistakes can start to show themselves.
What Can Be Done?
If you are looking for hardwood floor care to tackle the issues mentioned above, some remedies will be more extreme than others. If the nails were the problem, the boards can be more easily secured using screws, which should be done by an expert.
In other cases, there may be epoxy or glue injected into the space between the flooring and sub-flooring, however, it may need to be ripped out and re-installed.
Make sure to contact us at T & G Flooring if you start to notice popping sounds when walking on your wood flooring.