Warped Hardwood Floorboards

Sand down the bump in your flooring until it is level with the rest of the floor.

Warped hardwood floorboards.

Warped floorboards caused by humidity swings. Sanding down a warped floor the first method to fix a warped floor is to sand it. Sometimes even a nearby water source like flooding underneath the house can cause enough of a moisture imbalance to result in warping. Humidity fluctuations are a big contributor to warped hardwood floors.

Most often a warped wood floor is caused by standing water or heavy moisture below the floor due to an unidentified leak or other hidden water source. Water causes the wood to expand and shrink. The first called cupping is when the sides of the floorboards curl upward creating gaps between the floorboards. Many floor boards that are warped will need to be removed and replaced.

Often when people have moisture in their wood floors they do not know the cause of damage. Over the course of time this will lead to warping. There are several different types of warping that hardwood floors can face. This occurs when the flooring swells up pushing the sides against each other and forcing them upwards.

This works best for warps that come from humidity or a water spill rather than from a leak that originated below your flooring.