Gaps In My Vinyl Plank Flooring

Installing vinyl plank flooring can be an effective way of installing cheaper flooring while retaining the look and feel of a wood floor.

Gaps in my vinyl plank flooring.

If you go towards the wall instead you may end up having to deal with gaps in adjacent planks as a result. I installed my vinyl floor planks about 9 months ago in my kitchen and it has held up well despite the traffic. Not really sure on that front that could be the issue. Can this gap be fixed without.

When using the floor gap fixer it s generally best to inch the problem plank towards the center of the floor rather than outward towards the wall. Recently however we noticed a widening gap between 2 of the planks see pictures below. However putting in this flooring is an art form and sometimes gaps can appear between poorly laid boards. See my cheap fix for vinyl plank flooring coming apart due to temperature fluctuations.

If your new vinyl tile floor has an unsightly gap like this one you can fix it for less than 10. This trick also works to disguise the edges if your floor turned out not to be perfectly flat and a little bit of a tile s edge shows. Vinyl is susceptible to temperature changes in its ambient environment which will cause the vinyl flooring to expand and contract with normal hot and cold fluctuations. Probably only about 5 of the seems but it s enough to make the floor look not great.

If you have this problem then you may be wondering what you can do both to improve the look of your vinyl plank flooring and also to fill in gaps. When installing floating vinyl floors it is necessary to allow for this expansion by leaving a gap around the perimeter of the floor or anywhere it meets another floor or. Traditionally vinyl tiles are manufactured in such a way that when they are installed they are tight and square to each other with no gaps in. This will ensure that the far end remains concealed by the baseboard.

I think the vinyl plank flooring was decent quality as it was quite a bit more expensive than the laminate i was looking at initially but maybe i could have bought even more expensive vinyl.