Appreciation post: That one plank of engineered wood that fought me for three hours

Honestly, I was laying this herringbone floor in a Seattle condo and the last plank near the sliding door just would not click. Tbh I tried everything, even heating it with a heat gun and tapping it with a block. Ngl it took me three whole hours to figure out the subfloor had a tiny high spot right there. Has anyone else had a single plank turn a simple job into a marathon?

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terryk101mo ago

Three hours on one plank is wild. Honestly I would have lost my mind after the first hour. That tiny high spot is the worst kind of hidden problem.

hannahm3926d ago

The tiny high spot thing is the worst. So did you end up having to sand it down or actually replace the whole subfloor underneath? I'm curious because sometimes you can get away with just scraping the glue bump down if it's really small but other times you have to pull everything up.

the_jordan1mo ago

Actually, a heat gun can warp the locking system on some engineered floors... makes it even harder to click.