Engineered Wood Flooring Peeling

Peeling finish can be a frustrating issue for floor finishers.

Engineered wood flooring peeling.

This often leads to some head scratching trying to figure out how it happened. Most engineered wood flooring on the market is mass produced. I sanded a 980 sq ft. Without resanding waxes oils and furniture polishes used to clean wood floors seep into the pores of the finish and can prevent the new finish from bonding.

While the veneer can range in thickness depending on the quality of the flooring most engineered products can be sanded and refinished to restore their appearance. They are made of a plywood or composite base topped with a thin layer of wood veneer. Engineered floors are an economical alternative to solid hardwood flooring. Job and when i coated the floor oil base satin the finish started flaking off the floor from the grain i have had this problem one other time in the 4 years that i have been sanding floors.

This method also boils the wood before peeling it which can cause moisture issues. The best way to fix a peeling floor is to sand it down to bare wood and restart the finishing process. Even if you order the flooring all at the same time mass production methods result in flooring boards in varying widths lengths and thicknesses which can make for a very difficult installation. Well i laid engineered hardwood down about just a little under 700 square feet.

And the problem is is the top 3 millimeter layer is starting to peel up on a few of the boards. I know that the problem is wax in the grain of the wood and i also know that even if i sand the whole floor again the same thing will.