The persistent squeaking can be annoying and if you.
Wooden floor rising up.
Hardwood floors can lift when the nails holding them aren t secure or there aren t enough of them.
Lifting often occurs due to improper installation of your flooring or because of excess.
Wood is a porous material that expands and contracts naturally depending on the humidity levels in the air around it.
Up until recently my eng wood floors looked great with a smooth surface and sat perfectly flat and solid onto of the cement.
If the edges along the entire length of the plank curl up and the middle sinks down that s cupping.
How to fix hardwood floors that are lifting.
It is a floating floor so not pinned or glued.
Picture a typical wooden floor plank.
Although sealed with a protective coating hardwood floors can still absorb moisture.
Typically when hardwood flooring is installed there should some allowance given for this movement.
Warping and cupping are the two main types of floor damage and each cause varying degrees of deterioration.
Solid wood flooring takes in moisture when there is a high level of humidity in the air and then the flooring lets that moisture go when the humidity in the atmosphere reduces again.
However very recently i have noticed that a section of the wooden floor has started to rise up at the seam between the boards creating an uneven surface.
The skirting this problem is.
As stated in steve s comment the floor is rising excessively in the middle.