Laminate Floor Flexes When Walked On

New good quality laminate floor making cracking noise when walked on we recently had our hall and lounge fitted with good quality laminate our floors are concrete and we had the hallway already fitted with a much cheaper laminate which we removed this never made any noise when walked on.

Laminate floor flexes when walked on.

Ideal situation is when you can check your sub floor quality before laminate flooring purchase and then make adequate decision. The wear layer of laminate floor contains plastic that doesn t degrade in landfills. Having read other topics and flooring faqs in internet it seems that this sort of problems is normally caused by the sub floor not being flat or floor expansion. Neither former nor latter applies as this is a new installation week old and the sub floor seems to be flat enough.

It may look real but it s still a synthetic that feels unnaturally hard and can be harsh sounding when walked on. Can laminate flooring be installed on floor that flexes when you walk. Laminate flooring will snap and pop as you walk on it if it s bridging across hollow spots under the flooring. Avoid cheap laminate flooring.

Some laminate even mimics.