Moisture is number one cause of problems during wooden floor installations, so handling it is of utmost importance. While involving neither too many specialized skills, not time or efforts, many floor installers don´t take the issue into considerations and end up having certain, major troubles.

What happens most often is wood flooring gets delivered straight to the job site in winter coming derectly from a reputable supplier and having been stored in climate-controlled warehouses. Let´s imagine a short on-site team delay is the case, which means the wood will be siting around in the open for a while. The planks then find their way to the floor installation room inside the building with avarage temperatures quite higher than outside. Finally, the flooring has been fitted successfully and everything looks fine, but what happens in reality is customer rings us the next winter saying there are gaps in between floor boards.

What really happened? The flooring first gets acclimatized to the winter temperature and humidity on its arrival and is installed without taking the fact into consideration. Eventually, it swells up in summer, so board edges get damaged and next winter planks contract again and you end up with even larger gaps.