There was a crack that went the width of the slab and the slab was uneven so the installers chipped out and patched the floor and the crack.
Concrete dust coming through my engineered wood floors.
Add style warmth and value to your home with beautiful hardwood floors from the home depot.
And two of the rooms on the 1st floor only 2 floors had parquet flooring.
Engineered hardwood is sturdier than traditional plank but surface preparation still matters.
As an added bonus you probably only need to clean high traffic areas like foyers living rooms and hallways throughout the week.
Every time a person walks on the floor or a child drags a toy truck it grinds away millions of tiny particles of the concrete surface.
Plus engineered wood is more environmentally friendly because the actual wood veneer is cut cleanly and thinly reducing sawdust.
Our hardwood floors are available in solid and engineered hardwood and a wide variety of colors styles and wood species whether you re interested in a traditional look like a classic oak wood floor or something more modern and contemporary like bamboo floors or cork flooring we have everything.
Children playing on the floor will breathe in more.
We shopped around and hired a company to come in and take up the flooring prep and glue down the new mirage engineered maple hardwood flooring.
Because of this sweeping wood floors can be a waste of time and energy.
This means it is very low maintenance and won t swell or warp under normal traffic and conditions.
Up until recently my eng wood floors looked great with a smooth surface and sat perfectly flat and solid onto of the cement.
However the concrete must be flat dry.
The layers beneath the thin veneer of actual wood block out moisture and provide stability to an uneven concrete floor.
Im having an issue with my engineered wood floors which were installed in my condo almost 5 years ago on top of the original cement floors which were already 20 years old.
The best means of cleaning hardwood floors is to use a microfiber dust mop or a vacuum cleaner.
Engineered flooring is versatile and can be installed over most substrates including concrete.
For any flooring installation over concrete you should anticipate potential problems with moisture levels.
Like any wood product engineered hardwood expands and contracts because of changes in moisture.
We moved into a house last may.
How to clean concrete floors to install engineered flooring.
This is above grade and on a concrete slab.