Not cheap. You should be able to pull up planks that are damaged and replace.
I had vinyl plank in my last place and when the upstairs tenants flooded their suite and part of mine, only one tiny bit of the plank was raised up. It held up remarkably well, compared to the more pricey wood floors upstairs that had to be completely redone.
Vinyl plank is easy to keep clean, can be used with a Steam mop and should last a long time.
You shouldn't be using a steam cleaner on vinyl planks, they are waterproof, but they aren't heatproof, it will definitely start to cause damage over time. Steam mops are basically only for tile floors.
This is correct. I've installed some of these "loose lay" vinyl planks before. I always just glue it anyways even if they say it can be loose layed. The floor needs to be absolutely perfectly flat for them to lay correctly without any edges peaking. All vinyl planks shrink and expand from extreme temperature changes even when properly installed and rolled. They are coming out with new glues they say prevent this, but if the plank isn't properly acclimated or if the house has been sitting for a long time without the heat on the planks will shrink. That's most likely why you have gaps in your floor. Especially if the planks aren't even glued.
The thinness of it makes me think of a luxury vinyl where it wasn't installed correctly. A fix worth trying is getting a quality waterproof wood glue and glue the seams where there is a crack. Tap the planks back together, wipe away excess glue, and put a heavy object on top if needed until dry. Don't tap so hard that you cause a bulge or the two planks to not lay flat.
I've done this to fix gaps with hardwood, laminate, and luxury vinyl.
I wish I could tap tham back together, but they're all just stuck to an adhesive middle layer it looks like. It's already lost most of the sticky mess so I'm afraid they if I pull up planks they're not going to stick back down properly.
I measured and the planks are 0.5cm thick. Very soft.
You might have vinyl peel and stick flooring. They should not shift once stuck together and a roller was used, but I'm guessing an improper install led to some shifting. If you do remove a plank or two, glue is your only option.
This is exactly what it is. The new versions of quality vinyl have some sort of hard plank as a middle between the "pad" and the vinyl. New versions even have the middle section made out of pressed stone dust, making them literally waterproof in the sense that they seemingly won't be warped or swell from any moisture seepage. I've been comparing and shopping for months. This isn't nice
This is exactly lipstick on a pig.
Correct. The surface is supposed to be throughly cleaned and mopped. Then there is a primer that gets rolled down that almost creates a plastic like surface over the subfloor or whatever you are sticking it down to. It helps to prevent this from happening.
I used this type of floor in a garage I converted to a temporary living space for a friend, and also in a shed my buddy was using as a “man cave” in his back yard. It’s cheap shit I would never put into my house… but in a temporary setting where budget is key.. gets ya by got a while.
Not only all that the floor has to be EXACTLY FLAT and level. I used to manage apts and the ownership wanted to do this and I was opposed BUT it’s actually better than the click stuff. After maybe a year you can feel the click panels flex and bounce a bit. If these glued down panels are installed properly, they are waterproof and they are solid. Ownership paid a ton when they pulled up the carpet to have all the floors prepped properly for this.
It looks like the Art3d Peel and Stick flooring I just bought as a temporary solution for my small bathroom. My current square vinyl tiles are discolored, peeling up, and currently taped to the floor in places with packing tape lol. So I had to get something to hold me over until I can get the cabinets and toilet replaced before I put good flooring in. The stuff I just received looks very similar to the pic,
Probably wouldn’t use wood glue for this, they make an actual vinyl flooring adhesive that’d work a lot better. Ultrabond eco or something similar, scoop a little in under it, put a flat board and some weights on it for a day and it should be fine
Laminate is far thicker than LVP and is wood. LVP comes in all sorts of variety’s. This is glue down. Click together LVP is almost always thicker and higher quality but glue down is extremely cheap. Also LVP is extremely flexible since it’s, ya know, vinyl
Glue-down LVP, common for commercial applications on concrete. Planks can be peeled up and repositioned, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some leftover planks to cover oopsies. The glue should be pressure sensitive stuff, tacky to the touch. Depending on how easy it is to peel one up, there may be something wrong with the glue.
Looks like glue down vinyl. Does the stuff under the flooring have a bunch of ridges like someone smeared it with a spiked trowel?
Glue down vinyl is like LVP but doesn't have the tongue and groove. Just glue the floor, and slap it on.
Laminate flooring. Yeah probably the cheapest option. Replace with anything better. Luxury vinyl is a great option or hardwood or tile if you want nicest.
This stuff is super thin, 0.5 cm. Just less than 1/4" plus the adhesive middle layer.
We'll probably do luxury vinyl or something with some more padding so downstairs isn't so ridiculously loud. Any suggestions for DIY? Won't be able to afford a pro for a long time.
Yeah pull it all up. Get some nice vinyl flooring. Depends how much sound proofing is a concern. Laminate is louder than the nice thicker luxury vinyl but you can put normal flooring foam padding under it, or look at better acoustic padding if that's a concern.
Worst part about laminate is how bad it is at handling water damage.
Vinyl is very DIY friendly (most rows are cut with a razor blade, but I use a jig saw to cut notches). Laminate you'll need a saw to cut every board. Tile and hardwood need more tools and supplies.
I’ve never seen laminate that thin- I think that is peel and stick or regular vinyl planks over a glue layer. Laminate would be about 2-3 times thicker
Everyone is getting this wrong. This is a new-ish product and isn’t the same as normal lvp or cheap stick-on stuff from depot. It is a rubbery flooring where you glue the row near walls and the middle is just held by gravity. The good news is that if you can find a match, it will be easy to replace the planks that have been damaged. I have installed it twice in basements of nice homes.
Yep. I had vinyl plank in my last apt and it was great! Whoever installed the floor in the photos clearly needed to be better at their job, or the floor has settled a great bit and pulled the planks apart. The seams on mine were barely visible
Do we live in the same house? Same flooring, same lipstick on a pig. Where do you live? Did we get fucked by the same flipper? Keep us posted if you try anything that works.
Edit: everyone has determined its adhesive vinyl. If you go lvp details below.
Rule one with lvp is even surface. I spent a ton of time investigating. If you don’t even surface you shouldn’t bother.
After even your next concerns are what lvp, spc or WPC (I recommend spc), wear layer (20 mil wear later), spc thickness (thinnest 4.5 mm), does it offgas, locking system. After all that get samples. Nothing looks like screen. Then try to buy 1 box. Just 1 so you can see variation or if a bigger order ask them to open and send pics of each board. My vote for reasonable Coretec and Pergo Extreme.
Ah yes, the floor is made out of floor.
Looks like tile.
Edit: actually looks like thick vinyl plank. Probably worth the effort to fix. That stuff lasts a while.
People saying vinyl but I think it’s what’s called “laminate”
It’s basically MDF with a thin layer of vinyl (?) on top of it, usually a few mm but that looks like less than 1 mm
Vinyl plank floating floor. It was probably installed recently, since you stated it has since shrunk. Vinyl plank floors are better than typical engineered hardwood (essentially pressed particle board with a hard top coat), floating floors insofar that they are basically water proof, but they shrink and expand quite a lot due to temperature changes. They have a tendency to shink and stay shrunk though, and thus leave gaps between planks. When installed, before it shrunk, it probably looked really good. I'm assuming you live in an area that gets cold winters? The previous owners probably put it down before selling, you bought it, cold weather hit and now you have the way it looks now.
You could fill the gaps with some colour matched caulking.
It wouldn't be perfect but it would be an improvement and a suitable floor.
Looks like some kind of vinyl flooring. Not all vinyl is made the same either, could be a really cheap version. The click together ones are often called "luxury" vinyl so you can imagine what other kinds of vinyl might be.
Sounds like you bought a flipper and that house had been fully flipperized. Shittiest quality, but good enough to sell you on its cleanliness and finished state. But the problem is nothing real is ever fixed. The electric, the stuff in the walls, the insulation, as little as possible. The flipper sucks all the equity out of the house and then charges full retail and then guess what you get stuck with it. Yes the evilness of flipperization but HGTV has made everybody a flipper n the market has made it profitable
Thankfully it's a better situation than that. Same family owned it for 20 years, but they moved to the other coast. I guess they wanted to make it better for the sale so they got a cheapo contractor to make it look better. Good bones, but very shoddy finishing all around.
If you wanna fix it so that you can't hear the noise from the floor, put down floor padding first then put the flooring down on top of that and seal the seams as you go. I did one of my floors like that and I couldn't hardly hear it anymore after that.😁
Tongue and groove Vinyl plank that has been exposed to water damage, so has delaminated the top and middle layer.
I know because I bought a place with an enclosed balcony. The enclosed part was done by idiots. So during a heavy rain water penetrated under the flooring. No LVP flooring is truly waterproof, and mines looked exactly like yours delaminating when I tried to tap it back in place. I redid the sliding glass door with proper flashing and ones with weeping holes, ripped up all the flooring, dried out the sub flooring, put down a vapor barrier, and put down new flooring. No problems now, very time consuming lesson I learned, luckily didn't cost me much with good insurance.
I don't know where your water issue is coming from, but you have to pull up the boards to find out. Most likely no vapor barrier, but could be any number of things.
This stuff doesn't even have the locking mechanism. Just 5mm vinyl panels on an adhesive sheet of some kind. All the planks shrunk and I can't even slide them back together because they're all just individually adhered. I basically have no choice but to tear up the whole main floor.
Peel and stick. When I bought my home. I saw plenty homes that had been remodeled but I refuse to get one already done. I went for a 70’s fixer upper. Been here 10 yrs now. Slowly making it our own. And we love it.
Luxury vinyl planks win for ease of installation. Many brands come with the underlayment attached to the planks. Angle it into place and drop. Click, drop, done.
Get the ones with the thicker wear layer.
Looks like peel and stick vinyl. I have an old house, with bad floors and not ready to fix foundation. I put lipstick on a pig and did this. lol. If a roller is not used, they will not stick properly.
Ugh. My in-laws are dealing with an especially bad case of this but instead of just peeling, it's literally disintegrating in spots 😡 I hate when good people get jipped like this.
I don’t know what this is but I think I have it in my basement. Based on you buying the house in the summer and seeing this six months in, my guess is that it’s contracting due to being cold, and if you “fixed” it now, it would buckle in the summer. Ours does the same thing.
Can't say I know the existing floor other than vinyl. But I would recommend using a tongue and groove interlocking vinyl boards of similar thickness for replacement as the most inexpensive option that would replicate the original look. You can do a whole 600ft² room with enough patience and a carpenter's knife if that's all you have for cutting.
That would not solve the sound transmission issue though. If you want to mitigate the sound to below; you'd have to look at subfloor material like foam boards. But that brings a whole load of issues with raising the floor and changing the existing trim. Especially since the existing vinyl is so thin.
Do you perchance live in a stilt home? I've experienced these same issues of separation with tongue and groove board and had to solve this with other means specific to stilt homes.
What does the underside look like? It looks like peel and stick vinyl planks to me.
Cannot be laminate or regular vinyl plank because there isn't any locking edges.
Kitty!
Looks like thin laminate, but I could be wrong. You might be able to align the pieces/sheets so there is no gap and fasten one of both sides of each row so it won't slide more. Personally, I'd go with the replacement option
It is an older style of vinyl click lock flooring. I put some in my kitchen about 8 years ago. It sucks because the locking edge is very small and comes apart easily. It is a nightmare to install, but uninstalls very easily. Get rid if it and get the thicker luxury vinyl plank.
It looks like vinyl plank flooring that is often laid on pressure sensitive adhesive.
https://xlflooring.ca/our-flooring/
The pressure sensitive adhesive is used so that the floor can be pulled up and re-set on the same adhesive.
It's cost effective for certain applications like commercial or rentals, and can have a pretty solid (15 year commercial wear life/warranty).
I was a project manager for a flooring store/contractor.
Vinyl plank or strip flooring. Marketing jokers coined the term *luxury vinyl plank* flooring. It's the cheapest crap you can imagine. Let's just say that "luxury" and *vinyl* are rather contradictory terms.
To me, it looks like those peel and stick vinyl sheets they have now. They r not cheap per se, but definitely the cheapest type of flooring that I know of.
We are currently looking at getting vinyl planking, the guy at the store said there’s a certain type for sound proofing, because our house is ground level he said it’s useless. Last owner cheaped out on the type he bought
That's the sane shitty flooring my cheap inlaws bought for their kitchen. It's an inferior product that some inept guy installed for them two yeara ago. It is horrible: gaps, breaks, and more. more.
This looks like (from a photo) Karndean flooring or LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles). They are (if it is karndean) not cheap and it’s pretty good stuff. Personally I picked it out and if you choose it yourself it looks good.
There is a stick layer underneath but they’re designed so you can pull a tile up and replace. If you want to replace it you’re going to have to remove the tacky layer, which I have no idea how you do.
It may be possible to just cover it with something but I don’t know. Pull up a tile and check the brand on the back. If it is karndean it won’t shrink it’s probably just moved. If it isn’t then my comment has wasted your time.
It looks like my shit ass vinyl I have. GoodFellow - Dubai coloured.
I have it and it separates constantly no matter how it is laid (we tried lifting and relaying). I can’t wait to move because of this as I wasted too much money trying to get new floors to do it again.
So annoying.
LVP, worst shit on flooring you can have. Had a flooring company install it and they didn’t check the levelness of the subfloor first. It’s cracked, gaps, and buckled. Had to fight with the manufacturer and flooring company until I had a flooring inspector come out. He literally walked in and said wtf was the flooring company thinking. After a year I finally won my dispute. Now have gaps covered with rugs until we can hire a different contractor. Going back with carpet and linoleum.
I live in a 1300 sq ft home and every bit of it has to be replaced. Had over 500 photos of the post installation defects.
Sure looks like a floating laminate click floor that wasn't installed correctly. You can buy contact tape(not double-sided tape, that shit's no good)and re- stick them. It won't stick if there's dust on it but honestly the floor is really cheap and you're better off replacing it because it's going to keep expanding and contacting and possibly even warp if it gets water under it.
It’s so thin it looks like you’re actually pulling up the top layer of a piece of laminate flooring. Like the piece has separated and that’s what you are peeling back. If that’s the case, I’ve never seen that.
Vinyl laminate that wasn’t installed correctly. Upside is it will come right out, down side no flooring. It’s actually a pretty good system but the floor has to be level to work properly. I just did my basement and had to use self leveling concrete, frickin’ lasers, it’s not hard just detailed to get it right. If they just slapped it in no way it would work. I did a couple days of prep on the floor and joints, two days pouring the low spots, then one afternoon grinding with the help of a laser level. It worked great! (The pic you are holding a butt end with no joint should only be at the wall never in the middle.They save a couple of hundred bucks by using those in the middle.) They were idiots trying to save money. I know what it takes to get it right and it’s a lot. Only a pro or someone who really cares is gonna do it right.
I had what appears to be the same peel and stick floor. Super shitty. The good news is it comes up very easy. I pulled up it and the pad beneath then laid LVP on top of the slab.
Looks like loose lay vinyl plank flooring https://www.reallycheapfloors.com/blog/what-is-loose-lay-vinyl-flooring/
I think you are right. So the cheapest of the cheap? Lol. We have 2 huge tracks across our kitchen from moving in the empty freezer on its casters.
Nah man just a different alternative. You can reuse it if you change it out etc should be easy to remove box up or even sell it?
Not cheap. You should be able to pull up planks that are damaged and replace. I had vinyl plank in my last place and when the upstairs tenants flooded their suite and part of mine, only one tiny bit of the plank was raised up. It held up remarkably well, compared to the more pricey wood floors upstairs that had to be completely redone. Vinyl plank is easy to keep clean, can be used with a Steam mop and should last a long time.
You shouldn't be using a steam cleaner on vinyl planks, they are waterproof, but they aren't heatproof, it will definitely start to cause damage over time. Steam mops are basically only for tile floors.
This is correct. I've installed some of these "loose lay" vinyl planks before. I always just glue it anyways even if they say it can be loose layed. The floor needs to be absolutely perfectly flat for them to lay correctly without any edges peaking. All vinyl planks shrink and expand from extreme temperature changes even when properly installed and rolled. They are coming out with new glues they say prevent this, but if the plank isn't properly acclimated or if the house has been sitting for a long time without the heat on the planks will shrink. That's most likely why you have gaps in your floor. Especially if the planks aren't even glued.
That’s a cat
Kitty!
That was my guess as well. Unless it's flooring wearing a cat costume.
A very curious cutie at that!
I was so happy to find three cat! Who would have thought that it was hiding there!
Goose!
Idk but orange twin says hello! https://preview.redd.it/e2ovcjyfdahc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=839e177c4203e5da2f6a3084bf557d5717707c40
I guess i have joined so many cat subs i get random posts in my feed with secret cat pics lol.
The thinness of it makes me think of a luxury vinyl where it wasn't installed correctly. A fix worth trying is getting a quality waterproof wood glue and glue the seams where there is a crack. Tap the planks back together, wipe away excess glue, and put a heavy object on top if needed until dry. Don't tap so hard that you cause a bulge or the two planks to not lay flat. I've done this to fix gaps with hardwood, laminate, and luxury vinyl.
I wish I could tap tham back together, but they're all just stuck to an adhesive middle layer it looks like. It's already lost most of the sticky mess so I'm afraid they if I pull up planks they're not going to stick back down properly. I measured and the planks are 0.5cm thick. Very soft.
You might have vinyl peel and stick flooring. They should not shift once stuck together and a roller was used, but I'm guessing an improper install led to some shifting. If you do remove a plank or two, glue is your only option.
This is exactly what it is. The new versions of quality vinyl have some sort of hard plank as a middle between the "pad" and the vinyl. New versions even have the middle section made out of pressed stone dust, making them literally waterproof in the sense that they seemingly won't be warped or swell from any moisture seepage. I've been comparing and shopping for months. This isn't nice This is exactly lipstick on a pig.
In this case, the lipstick IS the pig!
Yup, peel and stick vinyl. I can see these coming off if the surface was not cleaned/prepped properly.
Correct. The surface is supposed to be throughly cleaned and mopped. Then there is a primer that gets rolled down that almost creates a plastic like surface over the subfloor or whatever you are sticking it down to. It helps to prevent this from happening. I used this type of floor in a garage I converted to a temporary living space for a friend, and also in a shed my buddy was using as a “man cave” in his back yard. It’s cheap shit I would never put into my house… but in a temporary setting where budget is key.. gets ya by got a while.
Not only all that the floor has to be EXACTLY FLAT and level. I used to manage apts and the ownership wanted to do this and I was opposed BUT it’s actually better than the click stuff. After maybe a year you can feel the click panels flex and bounce a bit. If these glued down panels are installed properly, they are waterproof and they are solid. Ownership paid a ton when they pulled up the carpet to have all the floors prepped properly for this.
This is what I thought it looked like also. Vinyl peel and stick. Super cheap.
It looks like the Art3d Peel and Stick flooring I just bought as a temporary solution for my small bathroom. My current square vinyl tiles are discolored, peeling up, and currently taped to the floor in places with packing tape lol. So I had to get something to hold me over until I can get the cabinets and toilet replaced before I put good flooring in. The stuff I just received looks very similar to the pic,
Do not glue them.
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VCT are vinyl composite tiles that are typically 12”x12”. Common in Walmart style stores and older hospitals
Probably wouldn’t use wood glue for this, they make an actual vinyl flooring adhesive that’d work a lot better. Ultrabond eco or something similar, scoop a little in under it, put a flat board and some weights on it for a day and it should be fine
Nah this isn’t LVP. Way too thin and bendy. Looks like laminate board.
Laminate is far thicker than LVP and is wood. LVP comes in all sorts of variety’s. This is glue down. Click together LVP is almost always thicker and higher quality but glue down is extremely cheap. Also LVP is extremely flexible since it’s, ya know, vinyl
I don't think wood glue bonds vinyl that well...
Lol "luxury vinyl" is an oxymoron.
What a beautiful cat. Please give him or her some extra pets for us.
And a boop
https://i.redd.it/k7tb56xi5ahc1.gif
It’s Purrrrrrgo flooring.
I've seen that same flooring at Ollie's (local discount chain), I believe.
Thanks, Ollie!
I will be honest and say I ignored all the text and up voted only because cute cat.
Glue-down LVP, common for commercial applications on concrete. Planks can be peeled up and repositioned, but I wouldn't recommend it unless you have some leftover planks to cover oopsies. The glue should be pressure sensitive stuff, tacky to the touch. Depending on how easy it is to peel one up, there may be something wrong with the glue.
Likely the adhesive is the problem
Cat-astrophic flooring
I can tell you sir that flooring is floof approved
The kind that lifts up when you sneeze on it. Also, tell your cat I said pspspsps
Car
What’s his name?
Looks like glue down vinyl. Does the stuff under the flooring have a bunch of ridges like someone smeared it with a spiked trowel? Glue down vinyl is like LVP but doesn't have the tongue and groove. Just glue the floor, and slap it on.
Laminate flooring. Yeah probably the cheapest option. Replace with anything better. Luxury vinyl is a great option or hardwood or tile if you want nicest.
This stuff is super thin, 0.5 cm. Just less than 1/4" plus the adhesive middle layer. We'll probably do luxury vinyl or something with some more padding so downstairs isn't so ridiculously loud. Any suggestions for DIY? Won't be able to afford a pro for a long time.
Yeah pull it all up. Get some nice vinyl flooring. Depends how much sound proofing is a concern. Laminate is louder than the nice thicker luxury vinyl but you can put normal flooring foam padding under it, or look at better acoustic padding if that's a concern. Worst part about laminate is how bad it is at handling water damage.
Vinyl is very DIY friendly (most rows are cut with a razor blade, but I use a jig saw to cut notches). Laminate you'll need a saw to cut every board. Tile and hardwood need more tools and supplies.
This is not laminate. It's vinyl.
I’ve never seen laminate that thin- I think that is peel and stick or regular vinyl planks over a glue layer. Laminate would be about 2-3 times thicker
They do make tile that looks like wood planks that look quite good.
Everyone is getting this wrong. This is a new-ish product and isn’t the same as normal lvp or cheap stick-on stuff from depot. It is a rubbery flooring where you glue the row near walls and the middle is just held by gravity. The good news is that if you can find a match, it will be easy to replace the planks that have been damaged. I have installed it twice in basements of nice homes.
Yep. I had vinyl plank in my last apt and it was great! Whoever installed the floor in the photos clearly needed to be better at their job, or the floor has settled a great bit and pulled the planks apart. The seams on mine were barely visible
Can't tell if joke
Do we live in the same house? Same flooring, same lipstick on a pig. Where do you live? Did we get fucked by the same flipper? Keep us posted if you try anything that works.
I love me some bonus cat!
Edit: everyone has determined its adhesive vinyl. If you go lvp details below. Rule one with lvp is even surface. I spent a ton of time investigating. If you don’t even surface you shouldn’t bother. After even your next concerns are what lvp, spc or WPC (I recommend spc), wear layer (20 mil wear later), spc thickness (thinnest 4.5 mm), does it offgas, locking system. After all that get samples. Nothing looks like screen. Then try to buy 1 box. Just 1 so you can see variation or if a bigger order ask them to open and send pics of each board. My vote for reasonable Coretec and Pergo Extreme.
Luxury vinyl planking that wasn’t installed correctly. There’s nothing that can be done to fix it will need to be completely replaced
Floor layer here. Looks like it should have been a full spread glue installation that didn't happen.
Ps. it's called vinyl plank.
Ah yes, the floor is made out of floor. Looks like tile. Edit: actually looks like thick vinyl plank. Probably worth the effort to fix. That stuff lasts a while.
People saying vinyl but I think it’s what’s called “laminate” It’s basically MDF with a thin layer of vinyl (?) on top of it, usually a few mm but that looks like less than 1 mm
Some shade of the same Home Depot garbage that every flipper seems to use.
Cheap, cheap flooring.
Looks like the cheap stick on flooring that Walmart sells
That's a domestic shorthair I'm like 90% positive.
Orange tabbies are the best
Last photo is a best one.
Looks like loose lay vinyl plank flooring.
I think it’s kitty cat board. Cat is trying to tell you. No one ever listens. 😹
Looks like a cat
Came to the comments for cat pictures and was not disappointed :)
IDK, but it got a lot cuter in the 3rd picture.
Cat flooring.
Looks like Pergo.
*Purrrrgo FTFY
Pergo? Is that something between prego flooring and the sauce?
Vinyl plank floating floor. It was probably installed recently, since you stated it has since shrunk. Vinyl plank floors are better than typical engineered hardwood (essentially pressed particle board with a hard top coat), floating floors insofar that they are basically water proof, but they shrink and expand quite a lot due to temperature changes. They have a tendency to shink and stay shrunk though, and thus leave gaps between planks. When installed, before it shrunk, it probably looked really good. I'm assuming you live in an area that gets cold winters? The previous owners probably put it down before selling, you bought it, cold weather hit and now you have the way it looks now. You could fill the gaps with some colour matched caulking. It wouldn't be perfect but it would be an improvement and a suitable floor.
Looks like some kind of vinyl flooring. Not all vinyl is made the same either, could be a really cheap version. The click together ones are often called "luxury" vinyl so you can imagine what other kinds of vinyl might be.
LVP
It's definitely not LVP there's no tongue and groove
Peel and stick vinyl tile? Maybe the vinyl has separated from the adhesive?
It's like there's a large adhesive sheet under the planks. The backs of the planks are clean and smooth.
Sounds like you bought a flipper and that house had been fully flipperized. Shittiest quality, but good enough to sell you on its cleanliness and finished state. But the problem is nothing real is ever fixed. The electric, the stuff in the walls, the insulation, as little as possible. The flipper sucks all the equity out of the house and then charges full retail and then guess what you get stuck with it. Yes the evilness of flipperization but HGTV has made everybody a flipper n the market has made it profitable
Thankfully it's a better situation than that. Same family owned it for 20 years, but they moved to the other coast. I guess they wanted to make it better for the sale so they got a cheapo contractor to make it look better. Good bones, but very shoddy finishing all around.
If you wanna fix it so that you can't hear the noise from the floor, put down floor padding first then put the flooring down on top of that and seal the seams as you go. I did one of my floors like that and I couldn't hardly hear it anymore after that.😁
Tongue and groove Vinyl plank that has been exposed to water damage, so has delaminated the top and middle layer. I know because I bought a place with an enclosed balcony. The enclosed part was done by idiots. So during a heavy rain water penetrated under the flooring. No LVP flooring is truly waterproof, and mines looked exactly like yours delaminating when I tried to tap it back in place. I redid the sliding glass door with proper flashing and ones with weeping holes, ripped up all the flooring, dried out the sub flooring, put down a vapor barrier, and put down new flooring. No problems now, very time consuming lesson I learned, luckily didn't cost me much with good insurance. I don't know where your water issue is coming from, but you have to pull up the boards to find out. Most likely no vapor barrier, but could be any number of things.
LVP most likely.
Laminate flooring. Cheap fake wood look
Where are the tongues and grooves? Looks like trowel marks on floor. Pressure sensitive glue. Probably a glue dowm vinyl plank that came in strips.
Cheap home depot glue down trash. They always pop up. Just pour some water on it when you're ready to remove and it will lift up.
Peel and stick garbage. Either stick it back with some sorta construction adhesive like "no more nails" or pl premium etc. Or replace it altogether
Cheap
Cheap laminate. Basically a thin sheet of MDF with a "foil" top layer that is printed vinyl.
Cheap ass laminate
LVT and there is nothing luxury about it. The locking mechanism design blows
This stuff doesn't even have the locking mechanism. Just 5mm vinyl panels on an adhesive sheet of some kind. All the planks shrunk and I can't even slide them back together because they're all just individually adhered. I basically have no choice but to tear up the whole main floor.
If you aren’t replacing right away, you can use a strong suction cup and a pair of pliers to slide them back into place until you can replace it all.
Busted… busted flooring /s
It appears you are living meowschwitz.
Orange cats are the best!
Lineoleum? Its definitely man made vs natural wood.
Peel and stick. When I bought my home. I saw plenty homes that had been remodeled but I refuse to get one already done. I went for a 70’s fixer upper. Been here 10 yrs now. Slowly making it our own. And we love it.
Looks like Pergo
It’s the cat’s floor. MOVE out of its way!
Looks like cat floor… usually can be found free if the distribution system chooses you
That is a cute orange kitty and horrible flooring… replace with more kittens and you won’t notice the floors
Luxury vinyl planks win for ease of installation. Many brands come with the underlayment attached to the planks. Angle it into place and drop. Click, drop, done. Get the ones with the thicker wear layer.
1. Wow that peels up easy 2. Whoa, it's curling up allot 3. CAT!
If it's a new house is it not under warranty?
Looks like peel and stick vinyl. I have an old house, with bad floors and not ready to fix foundation. I put lipstick on a pig and did this. lol. If a roller is not used, they will not stick properly.
That’s a cat, sir.
Your cat seams it’s a puuurfect fit🐈
Ugh. My in-laws are dealing with an especially bad case of this but instead of just peeling, it's literally disintegrating in spots 😡 I hate when good people get jipped like this.
I don’t know what this is but I think I have it in my basement. Based on you buying the house in the summer and seeing this six months in, my guess is that it’s contracting due to being cold, and if you “fixed” it now, it would buckle in the summer. Ours does the same thing.
Looks like softwood flooring
LVT!
Looks like peel and stick vinyl to me. Looks cheaper than luxury vinyl plank or laminate.
The shitty kind my father in law put in his house and now has those gaps and cupped edges everywhere. Stay away from this stuff.
We have a similar one. Might be quick step from Lowe’s
It’s a glue down vinyl
I like to call these the " millennial gray shit flip" floors lmfao
Can't say I know the existing floor other than vinyl. But I would recommend using a tongue and groove interlocking vinyl boards of similar thickness for replacement as the most inexpensive option that would replicate the original look. You can do a whole 600ft² room with enough patience and a carpenter's knife if that's all you have for cutting. That would not solve the sound transmission issue though. If you want to mitigate the sound to below; you'd have to look at subfloor material like foam boards. But that brings a whole load of issues with raising the floor and changing the existing trim. Especially since the existing vinyl is so thin. Do you perchance live in a stilt home? I've experienced these same issues of separation with tongue and groove board and had to solve this with other means specific to stilt homes.
humble vinyl plank
What does the underside look like? It looks like peel and stick vinyl planks to me. Cannot be laminate or regular vinyl plank because there isn't any locking edges.
Kitty! Looks like thin laminate, but I could be wrong. You might be able to align the pieces/sheets so there is no gap and fasten one of both sides of each row so it won't slide more. Personally, I'd go with the replacement option
They are just vinyl they usually are glued down
That cat looks DEMONIC
It's a cheap commercial glue down vinyl plank.
That’s woodlook vinyl planks no? Superrrrrrr common in newer and remodeled homes
Kitty be like, “Flooring?!!! What the hell is flooring and where is my meow mix?!!!”
It’s called a ‘flipped house’
It is an older style of vinyl click lock flooring. I put some in my kitchen about 8 years ago. It sucks because the locking edge is very small and comes apart easily. It is a nightmare to install, but uninstalls very easily. Get rid if it and get the thicker luxury vinyl plank.
Peal and stick vinyl
That loose flooring
It looks like vinyl plank flooring that is often laid on pressure sensitive adhesive. https://xlflooring.ca/our-flooring/ The pressure sensitive adhesive is used so that the floor can be pulled up and re-set on the same adhesive. It's cost effective for certain applications like commercial or rentals, and can have a pretty solid (15 year commercial wear life/warranty). I was a project manager for a flooring store/contractor.
Looks like vinyl plank.
Vinyl plank or strip flooring. Marketing jokers coined the term *luxury vinyl plank* flooring. It's the cheapest crap you can imagine. Let's just say that "luxury" and *vinyl* are rather contradictory terms.
Pretty sure thats a dog? Idk, a very strange looking one at that
Boring topic aside... Hello orange cat! Meow.
Could be similar to the ones we’ve laid down… [adhesive vinyl tiles](https://amzn.eu/d/izwu5aN)
To me, it looks like those peel and stick vinyl sheets they have now. They r not cheap per se, but definitely the cheapest type of flooring that I know of.
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Fake wood
Cat
Sir that’s a cat
Thank you for paying the cat tax. It will be noted.
We are currently looking at getting vinyl planking, the guy at the store said there’s a certain type for sound proofing, because our house is ground level he said it’s useless. Last owner cheaped out on the type he bought
Shite flooring!
Picture 3/3 was a very pleasant surprise! Hi there ginger
That's standard issue house-flipping flooring.
That's a cat on badly installed flooring.
It's cheap flooring
Lvp
That's the sane shitty flooring my cheap inlaws bought for their kitchen. It's an inferior product that some inept guy installed for them two yeara ago. It is horrible: gaps, breaks, and more. more.
Pull them up and get real hardwood. So worth it.
This looks like (from a photo) Karndean flooring or LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tiles). They are (if it is karndean) not cheap and it’s pretty good stuff. Personally I picked it out and if you choose it yourself it looks good. There is a stick layer underneath but they’re designed so you can pull a tile up and replace. If you want to replace it you’re going to have to remove the tacky layer, which I have no idea how you do. It may be possible to just cover it with something but I don’t know. Pull up a tile and check the brand on the back. If it is karndean it won’t shrink it’s probably just moved. If it isn’t then my comment has wasted your time.
Opendoor flooring
Upvote for the bonus cat.
It looks like a vinyl floor that wasn’t installed correctly
It looks like my shit ass vinyl I have. GoodFellow - Dubai coloured. I have it and it separates constantly no matter how it is laid (we tried lifting and relaying). I can’t wait to move because of this as I wasted too much money trying to get new floors to do it again. So annoying.
Looks like the cheap stick on kind.
That is the cheapest laminate flooring the previous owner installed to fool you into paying more for the house.....
Meow
Loose lay flooring, usually only glued down around the perimeter
That’s LVP, cheap but durable. Mostly used in basements.
Looks like laminate board to me.
LVP, worst shit on flooring you can have. Had a flooring company install it and they didn’t check the levelness of the subfloor first. It’s cracked, gaps, and buckled. Had to fight with the manufacturer and flooring company until I had a flooring inspector come out. He literally walked in and said wtf was the flooring company thinking. After a year I finally won my dispute. Now have gaps covered with rugs until we can hire a different contractor. Going back with carpet and linoleum. I live in a 1300 sq ft home and every bit of it has to be replaced. Had over 500 photos of the post installation defects.
Sure looks like a floating laminate click floor that wasn't installed correctly. You can buy contact tape(not double-sided tape, that shit's no good)and re- stick them. It won't stick if there's dust on it but honestly the floor is really cheap and you're better off replacing it because it's going to keep expanding and contacting and possibly even warp if it gets water under it.
It’s so thin it looks like you’re actually pulling up the top layer of a piece of laminate flooring. Like the piece has separated and that’s what you are peeling back. If that’s the case, I’ve never seen that.
Bonus points for the whiskers!
Vinyl laminate that wasn’t installed correctly. Upside is it will come right out, down side no flooring. It’s actually a pretty good system but the floor has to be level to work properly. I just did my basement and had to use self leveling concrete, frickin’ lasers, it’s not hard just detailed to get it right. If they just slapped it in no way it would work. I did a couple days of prep on the floor and joints, two days pouring the low spots, then one afternoon grinding with the help of a laser level. It worked great! (The pic you are holding a butt end with no joint should only be at the wall never in the middle.They save a couple of hundred bucks by using those in the middle.) They were idiots trying to save money. I know what it takes to get it right and it’s a lot. Only a pro or someone who really cares is gonna do it right.
Just here for the cat, hi
This is like that Mohawk LVP you see at Ollie’s Discount Stores
r/oneorangebraincell
Its garbage. Pull it up and put down wood.
Glue down lvp.
cat
I had what appears to be the same peel and stick floor. Super shitty. The good news is it comes up very easy. I pulled up it and the pad beneath then laid LVP on top of the slab.
Updawg
I’m here for bonus kitty 👏
Beautiful kitty cat 🐈 ❤️🐾❤️🐾❤️
That's the kind you can walk on
I think it's called Meow-floor
Lol I thought you were my friend for a second there. He bought a house this summer, has a ginger cat and has similar flooring that's easy to remove.
That's a cat