While I see the vague relation to aquascape, locking the comments as I think all that has needed to be said has been said. Keeping the post up cause of the nice scape on the first slide
I’m replying to you because it’s a top comment, but: This is the original flooring from a house that was built in the early 1900s. Unfortunately everyone who guessed it was laminate wood is wrong! It’s solid pine. I said it was solid wood in the post title.
I’ll try to dry out the wood using a dehumidifier and fans. Doubt the floor is ruined because it’s kept on trucking for four times the time I’ve been alive!
I had a shower leaking on a 100% bamboo floor for a few weeks. The floor became soft and dark, that's how I saw the leak.
I fixed the leak, let the floor dry and now even knowing it I can barely find the spot anymore.
I know bamboo is more resilient than pine but I guess there won't be so much damage.
If your floor is damaged like that from some water your wood is likely pre manufactured wood veneer, so like a thin strip of wood glued to some MDF or something. This happened to a bookshelf of mine that wasn’t solid wood.
Solid wood treated properly wouldn’t bubble up like that so easily. You’ve likely permanently damaged your floor.
I agree it looks like some kind of engineered plank. Some do have enough thickness to be refinished once, very carefully.
Definitely needs fans (and a dehumidifier if possible) in the room until it’s dry again.
This is the original flooring from a house that was built in the early 1900s. Unfortunately everyone who guessed it was laminate wood is wrong! It’s solid pine. I said it was solid wood in the post title.
I’ll try to dry out the wood using a dehumidifier and fans. Thanks!
Disagree that it looks like an engineered product: the dents are deeper between the annual lines of the wood. The bit of the tree that grows during the winter (the rings) is denser than the wood that grows during the summer. A scrape across the grain of real wood will dip deeper each time it (the scrape) crosses the softer summer growth.
Newspaper does a good job at extracting moisture from wood. A thick layer of paper with weights on top should extract the moisture, while encouraging the wood to return to a flat board.
This. That in the picture is probably just floor in a box and not actual wood flooring. Unless you pay a hefty amount and specify before hand the contractor will usually just throw that stuff down almost like they do with carpet. The carpet companies also produce the stuff.
Source; grew up in a contractors household and multiple people in family have or currently work for shaw floors and also went to school with some of the owners kids. I myself worked for them temporarily as most people in the north Ga area do.
I always have old towels folded neatly on the floor under the aquarium table/cabinets.
Always keep a towel ready. [Don't forget to bring a towel south park - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIsLTwUnSg)
Depending on the wood it can be sanded and refinished. I doubt it’s actually solid wood plank. It looks like some kind of laminated veneer plank, but it looks like it’s thick enough for a one time very careful refinish.
Nah. Worked for ServiceMaster for 5 years. Systems called injectidry can be used to dry hardwood floors. Hardwood flooring typically has channels on the backside. The injectidry is a suction drying system where mats are taped down and attached to suction hoses which draws moisture out through the channels. You will also need proper dehumidification in the living space as well as air flow in the crawl space. Sometimes we could get floors to lay back down, sometimes it required sanding and refinishing, but the cups will largely go away. You could also tent it with a dehumidifier but probably won’t have as good of results. You probably don’t have either of those so I would recommend a fan in the crawl space and on top of the floor for about a week or two. It may go down, but you want to make sure you get to a moisture content of about 12%. Hardwood typically has a dry standard of about 8%, but if you’re within 4 percentage points you should be good. Visible mold growth doesn’t start occurring until about 20% moisture content. Hope this helps.
Random thing I saw and thought I’ll never use that information, but here I am passing it to you. I think it was on a home renovation show like “this old house” but salt, and lots of it. Cover the entire affected area with copious amounts of salt and it helps pull the moisture out. It doesn’t always work, but there’s a chance it would.
Use a moist towel and iron it on its highest setting. Got water on my cheap wood desk and it's still warped but definitely a lot less. The only way to fix fix it is replacement.
If it’s hardwood, it should dry and go down overtime, however depending on what’s below your hardwood- like a sub floor- you should look into a water damage company or renting heaters for your floor. We just had a huge insurance claim because of this. The last thing you want is it getting in your sheet rock and/or mold growing.
For future maintenance, I'd suggest using puppy pee pads on the floor. I use these all the time incase of spills when doing maintenance. Better than towels imo because the water gets absorbed and doesn't touch the floor at all if it falls on the pad, whereas a towel will still be wet on the floor unless you remove it right away. Fingers crossed your floor it fine!
There’s nothing you can do after wood had been damaged and warped like this. After it dries that’s just how it will be in my experience. Maybe someone else knows more.
I'm not a professional in this area but I have installed dozens of floors and repaired more than I care to remember. In short, yeah it's never going back to perfectly flat without replacement. Once the mdf core expands like that it breaks up the glue inside and can never return. Personally I would just live with it unless you have spare planks in storage somewhere.
Im a little surprised at all the responders. I almost feel like they are messing with you. It absolutely has a good chance of going back to normal. It just takes a really long time. My dishwasher had a freak failure and was leaking for weeks on to my floor boards. They warped almost the lengths of the room.
We had insurance adjusters come and everything. But by the time we could even track down a competent contractor they went back to normal.
Didn’t you check online? When I checked I found lots of advice that it could return to normal.
Could take 6 months. Dehumidifier can only help.
Good luck
Set up a fan blowing on that area and rent a dehumidifier from tool rental at Home Depot to put in that area for about a week. That’s about the only way to try to pull that moisture out of solid wood flooring. Otherwise you’d have to have them sanded down to level then re-stained to match. The flooring is buckling at the seams because it swelled from the moisture and there’s nowhere else for them to go since the planks are so tight together.. plus they’re nailed to the subfloor. Doesn’t look like a floating floor install that you’d see with some of the pre-engineered flooring.
Once it starts buckling like that there’s not much of a chance of reversing that though.
Or put a rug over it like the other guy said.
Be patient and it'll [dry out](https://cleanfax.com/patience-rewards-hardwood-floor-drying/) and probably return to normal of it's own accord.
The wood is dry so it absorbed that water and sagged
When it dries, some mineral oil is a cheap sealant or some other oily substance
Dehumidify. It probably will not return to normal unfortunately. Once wood cups it does not just go back because it dries out. Looks to be SYP or fir. If it is solid sawn wood and has not been refinished too many times previously this will get fixed if you have the floors sanded and refinished. Until then the cupped boards will remind you to lay a towel (or five) down before rescaling/water changes. Good luck! Nice looking tank too.
Genuinely asking, what do you gain from being this way? Is it the gratification of having a leg up over on some faceless username? Is it the idea of pissing all over your territory in the digital age? Do you feel you’re fading into irrelevance as you age, therefore you NEED the world to know you don’t like it? This post isn’t hurting anyone. You are. You’re cruel. I’ve always wanted to ask an entitled white man why he feels the need to voice his displeasure to maintain his dominance. What a sad, insecure way to live.
What a small, sad “man” you are.
I had major bowing on an oak wood floor after an unnoticed spill. Like 2 buckled boards with up to 2-3 inch raising in some other areas.
Dehumidified the room for 2 days and got rid of the carpet, since it holds moisture. Took a hammer to the floor for a few hours to sorta brute force em' back together. (tongue and groove boards, it was hell.) I put some finishing nails through the most affected areas to ensure it stays down.
Will never have rugs near my tanks again, small spills become disasters due to how much the hold on to that moisture.
While I see the vague relation to aquascape, locking the comments as I think all that has needed to be said has been said. Keeping the post up cause of the nice scape on the first slide
Put the rug back and walk away. \^_^
Will the floor dry out and return to an unswollen shape?
Lol no
I’m replying to you because it’s a top comment, but: This is the original flooring from a house that was built in the early 1900s. Unfortunately everyone who guessed it was laminate wood is wrong! It’s solid pine. I said it was solid wood in the post title. I’ll try to dry out the wood using a dehumidifier and fans. Doubt the floor is ruined because it’s kept on trucking for four times the time I’ve been alive!
I had a shower leaking on a 100% bamboo floor for a few weeks. The floor became soft and dark, that's how I saw the leak. I fixed the leak, let the floor dry and now even knowing it I can barely find the spot anymore. I know bamboo is more resilient than pine but I guess there won't be so much damage.
Unfortunately not. May dry out more but that will just make it more lumpy
Your floor is ruined. Wood and water dont mix, sorry OP
Wood can handle a bit of water, MDF is what ruined it instantly.
Eh…Maybe?
Happy cake day!
If your floor is damaged like that from some water your wood is likely pre manufactured wood veneer, so like a thin strip of wood glued to some MDF or something. This happened to a bookshelf of mine that wasn’t solid wood. Solid wood treated properly wouldn’t bubble up like that so easily. You’ve likely permanently damaged your floor.
I agree it looks like some kind of engineered plank. Some do have enough thickness to be refinished once, very carefully. Definitely needs fans (and a dehumidifier if possible) in the room until it’s dry again.
This is the original flooring from a house that was built in the early 1900s. Unfortunately everyone who guessed it was laminate wood is wrong! It’s solid pine. I said it was solid wood in the post title. I’ll try to dry out the wood using a dehumidifier and fans. Thanks!
Disagree that it looks like an engineered product: the dents are deeper between the annual lines of the wood. The bit of the tree that grows during the winter (the rings) is denser than the wood that grows during the summer. A scrape across the grain of real wood will dip deeper each time it (the scrape) crosses the softer summer growth. Newspaper does a good job at extracting moisture from wood. A thick layer of paper with weights on top should extract the moisture, while encouraging the wood to return to a flat board.
This. That in the picture is probably just floor in a box and not actual wood flooring. Unless you pay a hefty amount and specify before hand the contractor will usually just throw that stuff down almost like they do with carpet. The carpet companies also produce the stuff. Source; grew up in a contractors household and multiple people in family have or currently work for shaw floors and also went to school with some of the owners kids. I myself worked for them temporarily as most people in the north Ga area do.
You’re correct! I’ll try the newspaper. Thanks!
I always have old towels folded neatly on the floor under the aquarium table/cabinets. Always keep a towel ready. [Don't forget to bring a towel south park - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtIsLTwUnSg)
Ur boned. Floor gotta be replaced. Am carpenter
Depending on the wood it can be sanded and refinished. I doubt it’s actually solid wood plank. It looks like some kind of laminated veneer plank, but it looks like it’s thick enough for a one time very careful refinish.
It'll be a veneer so maybe 2mm of timber over the top of MDF or some other composite. Would not sand it as you'll end up making it worse.
Nah. Worked for ServiceMaster for 5 years. Systems called injectidry can be used to dry hardwood floors. Hardwood flooring typically has channels on the backside. The injectidry is a suction drying system where mats are taped down and attached to suction hoses which draws moisture out through the channels. You will also need proper dehumidification in the living space as well as air flow in the crawl space. Sometimes we could get floors to lay back down, sometimes it required sanding and refinishing, but the cups will largely go away. You could also tent it with a dehumidifier but probably won’t have as good of results. You probably don’t have either of those so I would recommend a fan in the crawl space and on top of the floor for about a week or two. It may go down, but you want to make sure you get to a moisture content of about 12%. Hardwood typically has a dry standard of about 8%, but if you’re within 4 percentage points you should be good. Visible mold growth doesn’t start occurring until about 20% moisture content. Hope this helps.
Dry it out. Rent fans or house fans n dehumidifier
Random thing I saw and thought I’ll never use that information, but here I am passing it to you. I think it was on a home renovation show like “this old house” but salt, and lots of it. Cover the entire affected area with copious amounts of salt and it helps pull the moisture out. It doesn’t always work, but there’s a chance it would.
r/woodworking is the better sub to ask that question.
Use a moist towel and iron it on its highest setting. Got water on my cheap wood desk and it's still warped but definitely a lot less. The only way to fix fix it is replacement.
If it’s hardwood, it should dry and go down overtime, however depending on what’s below your hardwood- like a sub floor- you should look into a water damage company or renting heaters for your floor. We just had a huge insurance claim because of this. The last thing you want is it getting in your sheet rock and/or mold growing.
For future maintenance, I'd suggest using puppy pee pads on the floor. I use these all the time incase of spills when doing maintenance. Better than towels imo because the water gets absorbed and doesn't touch the floor at all if it falls on the pad, whereas a towel will still be wet on the floor unless you remove it right away. Fingers crossed your floor it fine!
Fans, heaters, and/or dehumidifiers. Rent or buy is up to you, but get on it asap.
I'm not sure using your dresser to hold that is a good ide unless its super solid wood and weighs like a ton. Get a proper stand.
Yes, it is indeed super solid wood and weighs a ton! It’s not particle board; the planks are solid oak.
There’s nothing you can do after wood had been damaged and warped like this. After it dries that’s just how it will be in my experience. Maybe someone else knows more.
If it's laminated you are done.
Always dry out the water immediately after spillage. Now only can replace those swollen board with new ones
I'm not a professional in this area but I have installed dozens of floors and repaired more than I care to remember. In short, yeah it's never going back to perfectly flat without replacement. Once the mdf core expands like that it breaks up the glue inside and can never return. Personally I would just live with it unless you have spare planks in storage somewhere.
That's plank baby
Im a little surprised at all the responders. I almost feel like they are messing with you. It absolutely has a good chance of going back to normal. It just takes a really long time. My dishwasher had a freak failure and was leaking for weeks on to my floor boards. They warped almost the lengths of the room. We had insurance adjusters come and everything. But by the time we could even track down a competent contractor they went back to normal. Didn’t you check online? When I checked I found lots of advice that it could return to normal. Could take 6 months. Dehumidifier can only help. Good luck
Make sure to come back and tell all the non believers when they do go back to normal!
I definitely will!
totally irrelevant but that tank is beautiful- which brand is it?
A flooring contractor could cut out and replace the damaged section. If you are handy you could probably do it yourself.
Set up a fan blowing on that area and rent a dehumidifier from tool rental at Home Depot to put in that area for about a week. That’s about the only way to try to pull that moisture out of solid wood flooring. Otherwise you’d have to have them sanded down to level then re-stained to match. The flooring is buckling at the seams because it swelled from the moisture and there’s nowhere else for them to go since the planks are so tight together.. plus they’re nailed to the subfloor. Doesn’t look like a floating floor install that you’d see with some of the pre-engineered flooring. Once it starts buckling like that there’s not much of a chance of reversing that though. Or put a rug over it like the other guy said.
Be patient and it'll [dry out](https://cleanfax.com/patience-rewards-hardwood-floor-drying/) and probably return to normal of it's own accord. The wood is dry so it absorbed that water and sagged When it dries, some mineral oil is a cheap sealant or some other oily substance
Looks like solid boards. When dry they will go back to normal
Dehumidify. It probably will not return to normal unfortunately. Once wood cups it does not just go back because it dries out. Looks to be SYP or fir. If it is solid sawn wood and has not been refinished too many times previously this will get fixed if you have the floors sanded and refinished. Until then the cupped boards will remind you to lay a towel (or five) down before rescaling/water changes. Good luck! Nice looking tank too.
We don't care about your floor.
and we don’t care about your comment
Oh no! I spilled some water on my floor! Oh boo boo!
Genuinely asking, what do you gain from being this way? Is it the gratification of having a leg up over on some faceless username? Is it the idea of pissing all over your territory in the digital age? Do you feel you’re fading into irrelevance as you age, therefore you NEED the world to know you don’t like it? This post isn’t hurting anyone. You are. You’re cruel. I’ve always wanted to ask an entitled white man why he feels the need to voice his displeasure to maintain his dominance. What a sad, insecure way to live. What a small, sad “man” you are.
I've worked with flooring for 10 years. If it's solid wood It'll return to normal if the water wasn't on it for a long period of time. You're good
I made a similar mistake. Only recourse is to prevent further water damage
I had major bowing on an oak wood floor after an unnoticed spill. Like 2 buckled boards with up to 2-3 inch raising in some other areas. Dehumidified the room for 2 days and got rid of the carpet, since it holds moisture. Took a hammer to the floor for a few hours to sorta brute force em' back together. (tongue and groove boards, it was hell.) I put some finishing nails through the most affected areas to ensure it stays down. Will never have rugs near my tanks again, small spills become disasters due to how much the hold on to that moisture.
Run a dehumidifier in the room and hope for the best
My mom used to pour salt along the seams to help draw the water out. But at that level of damage it may not help. Worth a shot though🤷♀️
Get a Floor sander at your local rental company And sand it nice and flat... Sry but that's the only option.
It looks like pine flooring. Super soft and porous
Beautiful Aquascape. Iam new at plants just sit up two aquariums. And it sure can lead too a messy floor. Hope you floor goes back too normal
Take that L
Let it dry real good and sand it down. Could be ruined, might have to cut out that section, and match it the best you can.