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LVP clunk / pop sound
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I’m guessing this is another variant of the squeaky floor issue, but I thought I’d check. I’m installing Mannington Adura Max LVP. A few days after we finished the room, we started to get a series of pops, or clunks, as we walk across the area circled in red on the photo. It’s nothing like the squeaks we get from joists, which I worked pretty hard to eliminate. We held off on most of the molding in case we had to pull up some of the plank in order to do something to the subfloor, but that was just an assumption on my part that I may have not quite gotten things flat enough. This area had a significant depression originally. It’s been about a month, and there’s no substantive change in the noise, although it does get better and worse throughout the day. Occasionally it disappears entirely for a short time.
Thoughts? How long should we wait to see if it fixes itself?
Thanks
Chuck
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4 Replies
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Any chance something is under it?
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Pretty sure there’s nothing loose under it. It does have a dip (about 4′ long across the boards) in that area. It gets to about 3/16″ and tapers to nothing at either end (it’s perpendicular to the window). I think I missed noticing that the board I used to fill much of that depression needed additional thinset on top of it in that area. I’ve attached a photo with the area marked from before the floor was laid. I’m a bit chagrined to find that at this point, but it was the first area I worked, and I struggled with getting the thinset smooth around the board.
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I think if you give it more time it will form to the floor and go away.
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Ok, thanks! There’s still a lot of project to go, so there’s plenty of time to see what happens.
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