High Rows

Joints too close together affect the stability of laminate flooring and ultimately cause damage to the locking profiles.

Plank surface damaged from water intrusion

Possible damage from handling or shipping, damage at the job site, or aggressive installation practices.

Corner of planked chipped from heavy rolling traffic across the floor.

The typical issues caused by excessive moisture from below, standing water, improper cleaning, aggressive tapping during installation, or no moisture barrier.

Indentation from a chair leg. Proper floor protectors will prevent this.

Planks with a different gloss level installed.

Chemical build-up from cleaning with wrong products.

Possible damage from handling or shipping, damage at the job site, or aggressive installation practices.

Typical damage from a locally caused event such as the dropping of a heavy item on to the surface of the floor.

Delamination at the edge of a plank.

After adhesive oozes through seams, it turns black from contaminants.

A typical issue related to moisture (a spill or leak) let standing on the floor for too long.

Screw through laminate inhibits floors' ability to float. This can cause the floor to buckle and separation of joints.

Improperly sealed seam coming apart.

Gapping occurring across the width of planks.

Protruding nail wore through the surface of LVT flooring.

Wrinkles from shifting subfloor in a mobile home.

The carpet on one side of the seam is lighter/darker than the other side.

Typical issues related to moisture imbalance usually due to the absence of a vapor barrier. Sometimes related to inadequate expansion space

Typical end lifting caused by inadequate expansion space.

Floor locked in at ceramic tile transition in background.

Loop pulled from the backing of a Berber carpet

The floating floor came apart in the middle of the room.

Typical moisture related issue.

Wrinkles - buckling from carpet that was not properly power-stretched

Floor protector becomes floor destroyer once-solid grit becomes embedded in it.

Locally caused gouge in the surface of vinyl flooring.

Locally caused scratching

Open woven ends of backing are signs that the installer did not properly seal the seam edges.

This is a large gap in the target seam.

Finish peeling from the surface of planks

Moisture in the crawl space caused the floor to cup and buckle.

The typical issues caused by excessive moisture, improper cleaning, aggressive tapping during installation no moisture barrier.

This shows the damage done by pets urinating on a seam (believe it or not this is a common occurrence)

This is the typical look of a loop pile carpet that had no sealer applied to the seam.

Subfloor seams telegraphing through vinyl flooring.

Engineered floor delaminating.

Damage to end of planks from aggressive installation tapping technique.

The typical issue caused by improper installation, subfloor not level, or too large of an expanse without a transition.

The center of the photo shows that the pattern is not properly aligned

Chair with roller wore through the entire plank.

The tufted pattern is no longer visible after foot traffic.

Tear on the surface of the vinyl floor from refrigerator damage.

Typical issues from such things as improper installation subfloor not being flat, missing vapor barrier, or covering too large of an expanse without a transition.

Typical intertangling of fibers found in matting complaint

Improper nailing pattern. Staples are too far apart.

Wrinkle from moving appliances without protecting floor.

Straightedge and taper gauge identifies the amount of flatness variation.

The plywood subfloor seam is telegraphing through LVT flooring.

Seam iron actually melted the fibers of this olefin fiber Berber.

Delamination caused by constant roller traffic across the joint.