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We had a laminate floor fitted 6 months ago, and some edges in the center are raising slightly. Also, there are slight divisions becoming apparent in some areas. Is this expected or should I complain to the fitters?

I am installing a 5″ plank engineered wood flooring in my home. It is hand scraped wood that is supposed to be glued down. The house has a slab foundation and part of the subfloor is covered with old vinyl tiles, and the other part is old VCT 9″ asbestos tile. It is all glued down with cutback and is very securely affixed to the slab. It is not coming up. Because of this, my plan is to level it all out with self levelling concrete, and lay the engineered wood directly on top of the old flooring. I will be using Bostick’s Best adhesive. Do you see any problem with this? Will the adhesive properly adhere to the old VCT tiles? Should I (if possible) put a skim coat of the concrete over the top of the tiles to help adhesion? Any other ideas/suggestions?

My contractor installed laminated flooring; however, when he was polyurethaning the rail, he kept putting the can down and didn’t realize that the bottom of the can was leaving marks on the laminated flooring. Now I have marks of the shiny polyurethane, outline of the can, on my floor. I don’t know what to get it off with, can you help?

The contractor suggested we fill the gaps with fiberglass and re-sand after staining: is this practical? I’ve see you suggest a different kind of wood filler, but not fiberglass. Would fiberglass be a good solution? Another contractor suggested to use the same filler as I have today (probably just sawdust and glue), as he says the wood has already shrunk to the max, and it won’t come out… Can I trust him?