Greg Jones
New Member
Hi,
I purchased engineered wood flooring at my local flooring store and they subcontracted the installation. My bedroom's concrete (slab) floor is about 2 inches lower than the marble tile in the hallway that leads to my bedroom. In order to raise the bedroom floor to make a less extreme transition, the contractor decided to lay fiberock tile backer board sheets on the floor on top of ProLite - the manufacturer of ProLite says can be laid up to 3/4 inch thick. So the ProLite dded 3/4 inch, the fiberock added 1/2 inch, and the engineered wood, after it is laid down will add 1/2 inch, bringing the height difference between the 2 rooms to only 1/4 inch.
So they laid down the fiberock a couple of weeks ago (there was a delay on the wood installation) and they used a wedge/spacer leveling system to minimize any lippage. Now, when I walk on the fiberock, it sometimes randomly makes a very loud pop/snap sound, almost like bubble wrap or popcorn popping. Not a bunch of pops at once but just one loud snap/pop/crack sound. And I usually can't replicate it if I step in the same spot twice. But hours later I can sometimes make it pop again in the same spot.
The flooring store and the contractor can't figure out the cause of the noise. They screwed down some of the fiberock using tapcon screws and the floor still pops randomly when walking on the fiberock boards. At this point, they are running out of ideas and are thinking that the remnants of the plastic spacers from the wedge leveling system are somehow rubbing in between the fiberock boards and the slight movement from walking on the fiberock snags the leveling spacer and it is making the loud popping sound. They do not believe the ProLite is making the sound because they feel that it would be a crunchy, gravel sound, not a single pop. But they seem unsure.
Any ideas what can cause this kind of noise? We obviously don't want to glue down the engineered wood until we eliminate the popping sound coming from the fiberock.
Thanks!
I purchased engineered wood flooring at my local flooring store and they subcontracted the installation. My bedroom's concrete (slab) floor is about 2 inches lower than the marble tile in the hallway that leads to my bedroom. In order to raise the bedroom floor to make a less extreme transition, the contractor decided to lay fiberock tile backer board sheets on the floor on top of ProLite - the manufacturer of ProLite says can be laid up to 3/4 inch thick. So the ProLite dded 3/4 inch, the fiberock added 1/2 inch, and the engineered wood, after it is laid down will add 1/2 inch, bringing the height difference between the 2 rooms to only 1/4 inch.
So they laid down the fiberock a couple of weeks ago (there was a delay on the wood installation) and they used a wedge/spacer leveling system to minimize any lippage. Now, when I walk on the fiberock, it sometimes randomly makes a very loud pop/snap sound, almost like bubble wrap or popcorn popping. Not a bunch of pops at once but just one loud snap/pop/crack sound. And I usually can't replicate it if I step in the same spot twice. But hours later I can sometimes make it pop again in the same spot.
The flooring store and the contractor can't figure out the cause of the noise. They screwed down some of the fiberock using tapcon screws and the floor still pops randomly when walking on the fiberock boards. At this point, they are running out of ideas and are thinking that the remnants of the plastic spacers from the wedge leveling system are somehow rubbing in between the fiberock boards and the slight movement from walking on the fiberock snags the leveling spacer and it is making the loud popping sound. They do not believe the ProLite is making the sound because they feel that it would be a crunchy, gravel sound, not a single pop. But they seem unsure.
Any ideas what can cause this kind of noise? We obviously don't want to glue down the engineered wood until we eliminate the popping sound coming from the fiberock.
Thanks!