Question! Was this your standard flexible glue down LVP or a click-in lock LVP that was glued down? We are doing a warranty claim on our click-in lock floating LVP we had installed two years ago for this exact issue, though we did not glue it down. We are having a different product installed that will also be click-in lock, but we were considering glueing it down as well, as Coretec says it can be glued down and we honestly hated the feeling of the floating floor. Ultimately, I'm wondering whether you are able to use a suction tool and mallet to tap these planks back into place (if they are click-in lock) despite the glue? I know logically the glue should make it tougher to tap them back into place, but I figure if they came apart in the first place, that would possibly imply the glue should be weakened and likely still easier to tap back in place. Thanks so much for the feedback, and I hope you had this fixed or replaced eventually!

@Build Lesson---- when using engineered flooring do you still nail it down at an angle through the tongue, or do you nail it straight down?

Hello, I'm way late on this video, but can you please tell me the best vinyl for a glue down install?

Flooring installer here with a few things to look into. First did you make sure the installers used the manufactures recommended adhesive and acclimated the materials according to manufactures recommendations? If so then id have the floor inspected by an independent inspector or contact the manufacture for a warranty claim. They will then likely send an inspector out to verify all installation procedures were followed as that is typically their way out of being liable for any issues. The sunlight areas typically dont cause gaps rather the planks expand and peak up at the butt joints. Have you tried using a heat gun to pull up a plank to check the trowel size was correct as well as many installers will use a smaller notch to make the glue go further. Is their a crawl space under or a full basement ? These are all things an inspector will look for to determine if it's an installation related issue or a manufacture issue which could get your floor replaced at their expense.

Nail holes!

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All trusses are firefighter killers Rapid failure in a fire

We are seeing a substance coming up through the crakes in our laminate flooring that we have in our basement. It's a brownish, yellow substance that is crumbly. Could that be the adhesive breaking down or a type of mold? Any thoughts are appreciated.

Any experience installing this tyle of floor in a condo on concrete floors? Do you recommend gluing or leaving it loose?

Wooden floors expand and contract way more than that … just sayin

Had glued down vinyl flooring in my basement 10 years ago … with lots of humidity … it hasn’t budged.

Not sure if I missed it, but did you use smooth or textured for the window and door trim? You mentioned using textured for the batten, which was very helpful. Thanks for a great video!

Wish I had seen your video before having installed glue down vinyl flooring!!! Ours is started to split and it has been only a couple of months. Sunlight is not much of an issue as we put blankets to block out this summers heat. After viewing your informative video I have been forced to accept my flooring will have gaps and that is just the new look of my floors.

wouldn't you say lesson learned is to engineer ahead of time a main duct run area in the middle of the space that would have alleviated any duct return sizing issue?

I am in a 140 year old house. Placed 1/2 plywood over the old hardwood floor and now the floor is solid but there a couple of areas where the floor is slightly uneven. To be expected in a house that old. We have encountered the click floor linkage breaks over time. Especially where the floor is mildly uneven. Lesson learned. Question is, will glue down better follow the contours of the floor? Has anyone had a similar experience?

Damn Canadians

I have built 3 homes. 2 with open web. I would never do it any other way.

This is why i like sheet vinyl. I've had every kind of plank/Snap and click they all separate at some point.

Jesus spoke these words, lifted up His eyes to heaven, and said: “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son also may glorify You, 2 as You have given Him authority over all flesh, that He should give eternal life to as many as You have given Him. 3 And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. 4 I have glorified You on the earth. I have finished the work which You have given Me to do. 5 And now, O Father, glorify Me together with Yourself, with the glory which I had with You before the world was. John 17:1-5

19 “There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and [a]fared sumptuously every day. 20 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, 21 desiring to be fed with [b]the crumbs which fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. 23 And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. 24 “Then he cried and said, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.’ 25 But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted and you are tormented. 26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.’ 27 “Then he said, ‘I beg you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house, 28 for I have five brothers, that he may testify to them, lest they also come to this place of torment.’ 29 Abraham said to him, ‘They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.’ 30 And he said, ‘No, father Abraham; but if one goes to them from the dead, they will repent.’ 31 But he said to him, ‘If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.’ ” Luke 16:19-31 10 Jesus answered and said to him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and do not know these things? 11 Most assuredly, I say to you, We speak what We know and testify what We have seen, and you do not receive Our witness. 12 If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how will you believe if I tell you heavenly things? 13 No one has ascended to heaven but He who came down from heaven, that is, the Son of Man who is in heaven. 14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up, 15 that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life. 16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God (YHVH, El Shaddai, Adonai, God of Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham). John 3:10-18

I recently learned the corrugated parts of flex duct have a huge impact on air flow. I'm assuming they have an even worse impact on high velocity because thr turbulence is a greater percentage of total volume.

Toronto here. Built a modern custom home 2050sf between Jan ‘23 to Jan ‘24. 4 beds, 4 baths. Worked with GC, kept day job (got paid more to work job than savings being GC myself). Usual finishes-i.e. custom cabinetry all areas. quarts counters and backsplash etc. Cost for within four walls, NOT including demo/appliances/landscaping/driveway and fence-$293/sf. If all in $328/sf. Gonna make jack shit after HST on sale.

Some of these peel and stick tile used to come with a lifetime warranty but no one will honor the warranty. Mine started to buckle and not stick to the floor in addition to the spacing. I've been trying to replace it with new pieces but it's doing the same thing. I feel like this is a total waste of money.

Thank you so much! Love this little videos to give me a better understanding of what goes into building a home

This is the most Canadian-sounding man I've ever heard 😂

I've glued down click-lock Cali rigid core vinyl flooring and zero issues. The fear of gaps is why I went with click over loose lay and the fear of hollow-sounding foot noise made me use glue -- so I'm good, provided I don't drop a dumbbell on it and crack it

use a high temprature adheisive that tends to stop shrinkage .and if you can get the wax for fixing wood or coloured mastic the same colour then wipe of with a cleaning wipe just to leave it in the joints where its shrunk . i hope that helps people

Thanx man.... This really helps.... What's ur take on vinyl sheets you think they are better choice???... Coz as they are a continuous sheet ???

Get to the point. LMFAO 😂

non virgin vinyl. Virgin vinyl won't expand ro contract.

I have installed click system upstairs and its coming apart everywhere! I payed for decent product as well about 4-5$ a square foot. I think I would go with something nailed in like wood or laminate flooring

Great video - I like these "one year later" videos by the owner as once you lived in the house its a great time to review what you would have done differently. As an owner builder - twice - you are always thinking about what you would do differently if you would do it again knowing that there are a lot of decisions you need to make up front - so you would never build a "perfect" house and I think that is one of the more enjoyable aspects of a custom build and sharing it with others and learning from others. In regards to a basement - I would agree that you don't need open truss design. More than any other floor in the house you know there are going to be internal walls and you know where they are going to be up front. The furnace/hot water heater area and any storage area, any rough in bathroom areas, and any areas with windows that would meet code for a bedroom.

Truss design has 3 criteria for stiffness. Depth of truss, spacing of trusses and grade of lumber used. If you do not want a bounce in your floor, design it better! L360 is a very low design for stiffness. You should have used L480 or L600 for your design if you did not want a bounce. Its not the trusses, its the design. No matter what floor system you use, if not designed correctly will have bounce.

I think it looks great. I'm going to be using Hardi siding, we are in an extreme fire danger area.

Will i be able to live in one room and have a two story bed in there and rent that out to someone else that way all the costs get covered? Rent to rent to rent

What did your system and install cost?

Good to know you. We are selling a rental apartment and the previous tenant was brutal to the old wood floors and cracked tiles in the kitchen. The hardwood floor guy said the damage in places was too deep and the layer of wood too thin to sand and refinish. This weekend the hardwood floor guy came back and installed the VPF, like you, in the living areas and the kitchen. The change was drastic and we are happy with the look. When we gut-renovated our own live/work space 5 years ago, we installed oak hardwood flooring in our kitchen living area and bedrooms. The hardwood floors are super beautiful but the cost was spectacularly more.

I used them in a walk out ranch I built 21 years ago. About 80% of the basement is finished space. What I don't like is the fact that they flex and creak at times when you walk across the floor.

Flooring places make better margins selling engineered hardwood, that is why they are all pushing it. If you can afford it, nothing beats solid hardwood, period.

Glad to see before I buy. Im gonna go with porcelain. Just put silicone or color caulking in cracks. Tape edges 1st

New 2000 sq ft double garage detached houses in ottawa are sold $900,000 so this is $450 per sq foot including lot and everything.

I never vacuum my F7 filters. I replace them.

What is the product please???

Thank you. This was very helpful!

25 years ago I layed down laminate wood flooring at my mothers house. All types of laminate back then was the glue type, where glue was applied to the tongue of the planks not one of those planks have released or shifted the two areas of the house where you suggest that sunlight has created your problem does not exists at my mothers house. Five years ago I replaced here wall to wall carpet upstairs with click type laminate and within a year i started to see some gapping appear and got worse over the next year, this was in the hallway near the bathroom and other areas in the bedroom. I eventailly sucked out the dirt inside the gaps put glue into the tongue and groove of the planks and kicked planks back into place. I have not seen the gaps return, but new ones have showed up. I think mostly its a expansion contration problem.

Good info & thank you.

Get out of the house quickly if it ever catches fire. Open truss might be strong but the worst fire. Garbage construction in my opinion.

Just finishing up building a 4 season home in cottage country (Ontario 1000 Islands). Paid $250K for 2 acre water view (incuded already installed septic, drilled well, and hydro). 1250 square ft. cost $300K to build. I did all the work myself with help from father and brother, so $240 / sq ft. Still have some landscaping to finish off. All in cost will be around $550K-$600K.

Could that issue not be because you are glueing the planks to wood floors? Would it not be that the wood underneath itself is causing the issue? As I’d imagine if you had a concrete base floor that’s been levelled correctly may not have this issue?

I have built a total of 20 houses on my own dime over the years. It was the most enjoyable work I have ever done. I am almost ready to build # 21 in Temecula.