Floating Hardwood floors not installing right?

Question

I'm trying to install Floating hardwood floors in a room, and I can't get them to snap together. When I put two pieces together, one piece sticks up a little, kind of like this __/ but not as severe. I have no clue what I'm doing wrong, I spent 6 hours working on the floor yesterday, and I've gotten nowhere. Someone please help!

Answer 1

It doesnt sound sound like your installing the tongue into the groove at the proper angle to me.  is it a tongue and groove floor system?

Answer 2

Depends on the quality of the flooring. As the price goes down, so does the quality. This means that the fit of the pieces is more difficult to achieve. The "male" part may need to be tapped into the "female joint with a rubber mallet. The cutters used to make the groove may have been dull.

Answer 3

you have to position it just right across the whole piece take two pieces from box and  just and practice take a piece of flooring cut off two pieces four inches long go to kitchen table and put the two pieces together

Answer 4

You could have a bad batch of flooring, it happens.

Answer 5

Take all the un-opened boxes and your receipt (and all the opened boxes if possible) back to the store that sold them.  

Get your money back.  "Junk in equals Junk out".  You can't get good results unless you start with good materials.  Buy a brand that cost more per foot that doesn't snap together or has own glue.  Buy a design that you must glue each piece as you put it down.  Only glue two edges of each piece.  Don't over glue, that is, don't fill the groove with glue, glue the top edge of the tongue.  Wipe off the excess as you hammer, yes tap with hammer and wooden block.   I just last year installed Thomasville flooring from Home Depot and it went down fine.  I installed some costly flooring with its own glue and I bruised it all over the floor because I was hitting it too hard to get the edges together.

Answer 6

are your sub-floors even?? sound like the flooring is in a bind. And are you using the tapping block to set the tongue and grooves tight??