Trying to give you all full details, so bear with me on the length of the post.
I had the original oak floors in my 1989 home here in Connecticut sanded and refinished with 3 coats of Absco oil poly 7 weeks ago. I continue to have poly beads coming up through the board cracks in every room on both floors all day long.
In 20 years, my floor guy has seen this a handful of times and it happened once and stopped; which a scrape/screen/recoat always fixed. From what I've found online, he did things correctly - waiting 24-48 hours between coats, surface dried to the touch within hours, sanded/dusted well; indicating they did not apply too much poly, nor in improper conditions.
Environment-wise, the central A/C is locked at 73 across the house and RH is around 40-50. I've been keeping the windows closed to prevent drastic shifts in temp/humidity, but that didn't help so I now keep them open with some fans going to keep the air flowing. My main question at this point is what the optimal environmental conditions are to maximize time to dry - it seems like I have 2 choices:
Leave as-is and run fans with the windows open
They'll eventually dry this way, but if they dry in this expanded state and the poly glues the boards together, will it cause sidebonding or panelization when they shrink again? This potential concerns me as then I am into replacing/repairing floors vs. just superficial issues.
Run dehumidifiers to dry/shrink the boards again
This would (theoretically) stop the beading and allow more air in, but my concern here is that I'll get another eruption when they do eventually swell again.
Thanks in advance for any help/advise.
I had the original oak floors in my 1989 home here in Connecticut sanded and refinished with 3 coats of Absco oil poly 7 weeks ago. I continue to have poly beads coming up through the board cracks in every room on both floors all day long.
In 20 years, my floor guy has seen this a handful of times and it happened once and stopped; which a scrape/screen/recoat always fixed. From what I've found online, he did things correctly - waiting 24-48 hours between coats, surface dried to the touch within hours, sanded/dusted well; indicating they did not apply too much poly, nor in improper conditions.
Environment-wise, the central A/C is locked at 73 across the house and RH is around 40-50. I've been keeping the windows closed to prevent drastic shifts in temp/humidity, but that didn't help so I now keep them open with some fans going to keep the air flowing. My main question at this point is what the optimal environmental conditions are to maximize time to dry - it seems like I have 2 choices:
Leave as-is and run fans with the windows open
They'll eventually dry this way, but if they dry in this expanded state and the poly glues the boards together, will it cause sidebonding or panelization when they shrink again? This potential concerns me as then I am into replacing/repairing floors vs. just superficial issues.
Run dehumidifiers to dry/shrink the boards again
This would (theoretically) stop the beading and allow more air in, but my concern here is that I'll get another eruption when they do eventually swell again.
Thanks in advance for any help/advise.