I installed a kitchen and hallway floor for a friend. It was the third time I have done this with this type of product. The product in question this time is Home Legend Santos mahogany. The product was purchased at Home Depot. Everything went well with the install. The floor looked great and I installed new kitchen cabinets and such after the floor. This was all done in early December. Just this past few days one of the slats has literally popped out. It is one that just so happens to be in a very high traffic area. I fiddled around with it tonight and it seems that the board itself is completely warped. It is a floating floor. The product was allowed to acclimate for at least three days before I laid it. I ran the floor all the way from the kitchen up the foyer to the front of the house in one complete lay. So to get at this one slat correctly I would have to take up the whole floor. Anyone have any ideas on how to repair this? It locks on all 4 sides. The slats are 3" by 36" long. I read some reviews on other sites and I believe this was probably the wrong product to install. It looks gorgeous but is certainly not meant for high traffic area. I alerted them to that fact but they wanted it anyway. They spent a total of about $1600 on the product (it was a large area) and the whole kitchen looks fabulous. It's just this one section of the floor is confounding and pissing me off. The floor is level, the under lament was installed correctly and the rest of the floor is fine. Do I have a chance of fixing this without having to rip up the whole floor?

Hello all - I was wondering if anyone has any experience with installing floors and any ideas on what I might do in my specific case.... I'm in a bit of a quandary on how to proceed on a flooring issue. Basically, the main area of the home that I just bought (Living room, den, and master BR) is covered by a pretty nice, uniform laminate floor right now (though I'm in no way tied to it by any means.) However, the kitchen, which separates the den and the living room/master suite is covered in a tile that dissects the laminate floor. Its pretty gross, and personally I've never been a fan of tile. The tile floor is slightly higher than the laminate (probably a few centimeters). I really don't want to have to pull up that tile, so I was thinking the easy thing to do would be to install floating laminate or bamboo over the existing floors - but to be honest I'm not sure that's really possible. The first caveat seems to be that the laminate and tile aren't level. Obviously, that would have to be corrected. Also, does anyone know if the floating floor can be installed over existing laminate floor? I'm curious as to any input you might have. I really appreciate all of your help and time. I really like hardwoord floors, but I can't break the bank with this project, as the SqFt is probably going to be around 1100 - and I've found some good deals on laminate and bamboo online. My preference would be to simply get rid of the tile area and refloor that area with matching laminate from the rest of the house, but matching the floor exactly seems almost impossible. That would be the most cost effective, at least, but again, I have my doubts. And one more quick question....I do have a large dog - about 110lbs. Would he totally mess up the bamboo vs. laminate? Thanks again for all of your time! -44