Good stuff. I never used floor leveling compound and I knew I might have some issues in certain spots but this worked great and then I used a brown sharpie to color the hole. Thank you
followed your instructions and fixed my kitchen floor today. I just want to thank you , I made a mistake of not levelling my floor before laying my floating floor boards rookie mistake, the soft spot has been bothering me for a while ; your video was a great help.
Worked like a champ on a engineered wood floor, did my whole floor, anywhere there were hollow spots. I used wooden skewers to fill holes instead of shavings!
nicely done!!!, kind of what i was thinking about doing, but i liked your tooling and opposite-end filling method better...i need to do a few spots in my floors too. thanks!
This absolutely works! Fixed a 3 square foot area of 5/16" Bruce oak flooring with only 2 injections. Cost me $9 for the syringe and glue. No more creaking or popping!
The "old bat"?? What a hateful comment about either your significant other or a paying customer. I paid a LOT of money for my LVP floors to be properly installed WITHOUT popping voids. Floors should be leveled. If you aren't competent enough to install them correctly don't call women names, you ASSHOLE.
Brilliant! thought I was so smart to get a livestock syringe and file down the needle tip, took WAY more refills of glue. Gonna do the second half with a turkey injector! Man, your floor held a LOT of glue. You can sit the glue in warm water to help thin it. Thank you
ive been doing hardowood floor for 5 years installing and this is the method that is used to do this i use tribond injection gun whitch is a lil more extreme but this is the basic principals of an injection u allready glued the floor down so adding glue isnt gonna cause anymore moisture every one is so worried about moisture but unless its like 90 inside its no problem proper moisture levels are between 56 and 65 depending on the place ... gj pat nice injection
This process and Titebond worked very well!! Once tweak you can make is to use an inflation needle (for a ball) and screw it in the bottom of the Mainstays flavor injector. The smaller needle means alot smaller hole in the floor!!
my engineered wood floor was popping up and I had some hollow spots and I did exactly what you did in the video and it worked perfectly,that glue got the wood floor bonded to the concrete floor perfectly. Thank you very much.
Great video, I suggest he use the wood shavings from drilling the hole and use that to cover the holes. Doing this would give you an exact color match and a nice smooth finish.
The top of the floor is not the same color as in the middle of the board. So the shavings will not be the exact match. You can get colored wood putty to try to get a close match to blend in with the floor color.
One issue, if it is a floating floor, it won't float any longer. Have you tried expanding foam? It needs to be the low expansion type. It will do the same and floor can move.
Is this just to sound solid? Or does the glue add more support? If do how, if it is not being supported by a concrete slab or block. I'm asking relating a crawl space floor foundation.
why did you replace eventually? second question is would you use titebond3 or bond2 should be sufficient. I have an engineering woodfloor that is popping in several places and an underlying floor...
@@leahpatrick55 Got it :) Thanks a bunch. I am going to use that technique . I am still puzzeled as why this happened on several areas of the house. Engineering woodfloor was glued 5 months ago :( . I suspect either the adhesive was not sufficient and/or leveling was not perfect as I have more then 2 meters long boards...
Marnie Jordan unfortunately prob not floors that old are normally not glued down they are nailed. Can’t be for sure without checking it out but doubt it.
Ok, the guys who have repaired a few of them before have done something similar to what you did. The house is only 4 years old. Unfortunately, I have had this issue before. I am currently in the process of a divorce so was looking for a cheaper way to repair it. I just wanted to be sure before I did anything to them that might damage them.
Justin... I just put down my "click" engineering hardwood flooring and it looks great. I use the floating method. But I notice that bounce in certain places. It's on a slab that looked perfectly level by the naked eye. I had carpet before I put the engineering wood down. I removed and scrapped all the old glue from the rug. I added an addition to my home awhile back that I paid big money for. I looked at your video very expressive. Is there anything you recommend me to do extra? And will this work for me? Looking for all inputs
Is the glue TiteBond?? What else can I use.?I have wood floor at a transition place that the tiles are loose.I can actually pop them up about 1/2in... I can eliminate the drilling I believe
Say you’ve got an area that’s not much wider than two or three hands, but it crosses 3 different boards, believe it is where previous owners of our house had the foot of one of their sofas. Will this work the same, just more glue?
Would this method work if there was an underlay foam in between the laminate floor and the concrete? Have a few hollow spots and a kitchen island has been installed on top so no chance off lifting the floor again.
Would this method work for a floating floor? Wouldn't this prevent proper expansion and contraction? If yes would the same method using silicone be more appropriate? THANKS !!
Would this be recommended for vinyl floors? I have a lot of areas that sinking in. Seem like it’s going to break in certain areas. What would you recommend??
maddurus no for popping laminate you can shoot foam insulation underneath the spot. There are RU-vid videos on how to do this I might make one if I run across it !
I have a void under my laminated floor. Do I drill through the underlay and pump the glue below it or drill just through the floor tile and pump the glue above the underlay?
@@leahpatrick55 i don't understand. I thought you are trying to fill a space just underneath the wood tile. My contractor miss a spot when he levelled the floor before installing laminated floor. What will be the problem if i attempt to fill the space beneath my laminated floor using your method?
Is there any reason you're using glue instead of foam like in other videos I've seen? I wonder which one is better? Wood glue or foams like Great Stuff, etc.
@@ShrimpCracka Why not? What would you use for that situation? I have engineered hardwood and they placed underlayment before installing the wood but have one terrible hollow place that aggravates me so much.
@@leahpatrick55 thank you for your response. I have been watching a lot of videos about this particular hardwood repair and some use 3M epoxy instead of glue. Would appreciate to know your opinion on expoxy vs glue for this work ?
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i have a problem with the floor having hot foil underneath I'm not sure if this is your method or another one I've seen on youtube ... it's with foam .. Your method ... I'm worried the glue won't spill under the floor and with the foam method I do not know whether the foam is sufficient to bear the load
Let's think about this for a second. It's an engineered wood so it's floating on foam and not glued down, right? Now, this guy is suggesting you shoot a water based glue under the wood floor but onto of the foam layer. First, I believe the foam is going to absorb/distribute the glue a bit. Second, the underpart of the floor is wood so, you just added moisture to the problem. Lastly, I'm not sure if the floor is going to float anymore in that section so issues may arise at this point or in another area. It's been over a year and I'd love to know whether this fixed the issue.
43caliban43 first off not a floating floor. And I only suggest this on an engineered glue down floor on a slab done this many times works great ! This is my personal house in the video.
It's great to hear that no other issues arose. I was not aware that the installer glued the engineered wood down to the slab. Do you think that was part of the problem?
Mine is hickory from Regal Floors. It’s Walla Walla canyon and was put down on the slab. Now I have about 5 areas doing this popping. One involves about 3 square feet. The syringe I used was for cows. Fail. Glue just came out where I was injecting. I see my hole was too big as part of the problem. What did get in didn’t fix it.
