The carpet on one side of the seam is lighter/darker than the other side.
Joints too close together affect the stability of laminate flooring and ultimately cause damage to the locking profiles.
The typical issues caused by excessive moisture from below, standing water, improper cleaning, aggressive tapping during installation, or no moisture barrier.
The tufted pattern is no longer visible after foot traffic.
Corner of planked chipped from heavy rolling traffic across the floor.
Engineered floor delaminating.
Chair with roller wore through the entire plank.
Indentation from a chair leg. Proper floor protectors will prevent this.
This is the typical look of a loop pile carpet that had no sealer applied to the seam.
High Rows
Wrinkles from shifting subfloor in a mobile home.
Planks with a different gloss level installed.
This is a large gap in the target seam.
Tear on the surface of the vinyl floor from refrigerator damage.
Possible damage from handling or shipping, damage at the job site, or aggressive installation practices.
Moisture in the crawl space caused the floor to cup and buckle.
Screw through laminate inhibits floors' ability to float. This can cause the floor to buckle and separation of joints.
Floor protector becomes floor destroyer once-solid grit becomes embedded in it.
Damage to end of planks from aggressive installation tapping technique.
Straightedge and taper gauge identifies the amount of flatness variation.
The typical issues caused by excessive moisture, improper cleaning, aggressive tapping during installation no moisture barrier.
Plank surface damaged from water intrusion
A typical issue related to moisture (a spill or leak) let standing on the floor for too long.
The center of the photo shows that the pattern is not properly aligned
Typical issues related to moisture imbalance usually due to the absence of a vapor barrier. Sometimes related to inadequate expansion space
Locally caused gouge in the surface of vinyl flooring.
The floating floor came apart in the middle of the room.
Wrinkle from moving appliances without protecting floor.
This shows the damage done by pets urinating on a seam (believe it or not this is a common occurrence)
Improperly sealed seam coming apart.
Typical damage from a locally caused event such as the dropping of a heavy item on to the surface of the floor.
Improper nailing pattern. Staples are too far apart.
After adhesive oozes through seams, it turns black from contaminants.
Typical end lifting caused by inadequate expansion space.
Subfloor seams telegraphing through vinyl flooring.
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.
Possible damage from handling or shipping, damage at the job site, or aggressive installation practices.
Typical moisture related issue.
Typical intertangling of fibers found in matting complaint
Delamination caused by constant roller traffic across the joint.
Chemical build-up from cleaning with wrong products.
Seam iron actually melted the fibers of this olefin fiber Berber.
The plywood subfloor seam is telegraphing through LVT flooring.
Protruding nail wore through the surface of LVT flooring.
Locally caused scratching
Delamination at the edge of a plank.
Loop pulled from the backing of a Berber carpet
Finish peeling from the surface of planks
Gapping occurring across the width of planks.
The typical issue caused by improper installation, subfloor not level, or too large of an expanse without a transition.
Open woven ends of backing are signs that the installer did not properly seal the seam edges.
Floor locked in at ceramic tile transition in background.
Wrinkles - buckling from carpet that was not properly power-stretched