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We moved into our new house last fall. Over the winter our floors started gapping. I contacted the home builder and he talked with the flooring guys and they said it was due to low humidity in the home. I installed a humidifier but by then the cold weather was almost over. I also bought a humidity gauge and it reads over 40% most of the time. The floor guys claimed the gaps would close by themselves but its now July and we have noticed little if any improvement. Our warranty on the home will be over in November so I was wondering how long it normally takes these boards to fix themselves.

I just installed a T & G fir plywood floor in our barn and was looking for suggestions on what type of coating I should use to prevent slivers, seal the screw holes and minor gaps in the flooring. We are using the floor for roller blading, badminton, basketball etc. I was thinking of a rubberized colour coating of some sort?

We just bought an old house with beautiful wood floors and trim. However, the floors are VERY pitted and cracked in large high traffic areas, though fairly solid (i.e., not creaking or moving a lot). We will eventually (5 yrs?) want to have the wood flooring professionally replaced throughout, but the cost is currently prohibitive as we are currently tapped out from buying the home. I want to try wood filling the pits and cracks. I notice that in answering others’ questions you have recommended sawdust and glue mix followed by a latex wood filler?
Why? What about epoxy filler? I have heard that ********** Epoxy Paste available from the US through ************ is a very good product. Also, is it necessary to refinish the entire floor after the repair?

I recently built a house in the Northeast and installed 11 inch wide T&G pine floors. Since then many of the boards have cracked along the board. I am not talking about gaps between boards, although we have many of those some even bigger than 1/4 in. Many of the cracks seem to be more closer to the edges than down the middle, although again a few have cracked down the middle. My contractor says this is normal with such wide boards but I can’t imagine that that is so. The boards were installed in the winter and were face nailed in the summer with no AC on in the house until long after the boards had been laid. Please give me some advice as to what you think the cause is and if this is to be expected.

I have some uneven gaps around the perimeter of my laminate flooring which I am installing myself. In some places, they are as big as 10 mm. Can I cover them with Quarter rounds?
Also, about the underlayment, should the underlayment run under the baseboards or should it be just under the laminates? Is it OK if some area along the perimeter (say about 5 mm) does not have an underlayment?