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.
Probably only about 5 of the seems but it s enough to make the floor look not great.
If you go towards the wall instead you may end up having to deal with gaps in adjacent planks as a result.
However putting in this flooring is an art form and sometimes gaps can appear between poorly laid boards.
Recently however we noticed a widening gap between 2 of the planks see pictures below.
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.
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.
Can this gap be fixed without.
How to fill gaps between vinyl floor tiles.
These are not glued down but a lock click systems.
This will ensure that the far end remains concealed by the baseboard.
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.
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.
See my cheap fix for vinyl plank flooring coming apart due to temperature fluctuations.
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.
I installed my vinyl floor planks about 9 months ago in my kitchen and it has held up well despite the traffic.
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.
Fortunately there is a pretty easy way to fix gaps in vinyl tile or planks.