Buckling
Also called tenting
A floor that lifts off its substrate because it expanded and had nowhere to go.
Buckling and tenting are the most dramatic of the failure modes and the most clearly attributable: the floor expanded, the expansion gaps were absent or insufficient, and the only remaining direction was up.
It is almost always a gap failure at a wall or a fixed object rather than a material failure.
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- Expansion gapDeliberate clearance left at walls and at every fixed object so the floor has somewhere to go when it expands.
- Relative humidityThe amount of water vapour in the air relative to what that air could hold at its temperature — the environmental variable a hardwood floor actually responds to.
- Moisture contentThe proportion of water in wood or in a subfloor, measured before installation and used to decide whether the two are compatible.
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