How To Tell If Floor Is Rotting

The wood floor was cupping at the seams and had to be replaced.

How to tell if floor is rotting.

Water has found a permanent residence in your wood flooring because of a broken pipe or some other reason. Wet rot is treated depending on the severity and placement of the rot. It is just a less stable floor where it was replaced although it looks lovely. How to fix it.

If your floor is soft water stained loose or visibly rotting then it s time to consider new floors. Pull up any wall or floor trim that prevents flooring removal. Soft smelly kind of rotting floor which no amount of air freshener can evaporate. Look at the floor surface in the room.

If you are unsure if you floor has sustained extensive damage from water ask a professional for advice. If this happens then you are at risk for rotting mold and other complex problems that may take even more money and time to fix. The only sure way to find out is to remove a section of the wallboard and check the wood behind. Take out the damaged wood as soon as possible and stop the influx of water.

If you find mold growing the wood floor plates behind the wall are at risk of wood rot. Sometimes simple reapplications of water repellent finishes may stop the rot while on other occasions the entire timber may need to be replaced. The sagging and sponginess may be right next to a lump in the floor because moisture and rot can warp the subfloor causing part of it to sag and part to lift off the joists. This is a definite sign that there is a rot issue under that area of the flooring.

Remove the floor covering to reveal the rotting floor and the surrounding subfloor. How could i find out how structural these joists are it is a ground floor room in a terraced house the floor picks up all the noise and vibrations when my neighbours next door walk on their floor and when i mentioned this to a builder i had round he said i could cut away the joists completely and put a concrete floor in instead. In all cases of wet rot the source of the moisture which causes the rot must be addressed to prevent further issues. You will need to pull up the flooring and repair or the spot will.

Parts of the subfloor were a bit dodgy and were replaced and this was part of a lot of other work so i can t put an accurate price on that but i don t think more than 1 500 went to the whole flooring job tile included. Rotted subfloors eventually turn spongy and when you walk on a rotted area the lack of support offered by the floor becomes increasingly noticeable. I also noticed slight squeaking and a more soft feeling where the floor was replaced. 4 spots on the flooring.

If there is an area that has not had a spill which caused a spot then it is likely that the wood in the subfloor is rotting. For example i had a carpenter put a tile floor in my bathroom last year.