Browse Forums Building Standards; Getting It Right! 1 Jan 01, 2011 11:11 am I have been having problems with my laminate flooring. They have been bulging up and making really creaky sounds - I have installed this same laminate maybe close to 6-7 times with a 5mm acoustic underlay. This time i bought a 3mm acoustic underlay from bunnings. Would the underlay be causing this issue? i even got the installer to widen the gaps between skirting to ensure it will not be an issue however it keeps happening. Re: Bulging and creaky laminate floorboards 2Jan 04, 2011 8:34 pm did you law the boards with approx 10mm gap away from each wall? i believe the bowing is commonly caused by the wood/fibre getting slightly moist and then expanding. if you don't leave a gap, they will expand to the walls and bow. I assume yo have unground pool If you have a bulge in the pool sides or floor it is because the hydrostatic pressure on the outside of your pool is higher than inside the… 2 32849 Hi All New to the forum and looking for some advice, has anyone else renovated an old miners cottage in or around Ballarat and been able to identify the flooring? We… 0 8762 Just about completed a renovation project and hit a small issue that we didn’t see We have laminate floors now where we had tiles before (turned out it was actually 2… 0 4919 |