hi shoulder JD Pelton today I'm going to teach you how to fix a buckle in your wood floor first thing we're going to do is we're going to remove the shoe molding we're going to take a sharp knife I got my hunting knife with me because I can't find my box cutter and you're going to come along here and you're just going to score the top of the baseboard you're going to score that caulking the hump in my floor is right here the reason being is because the weight of this solid oak floor is in this entire house and this was the last wall that I did I worked my original way this way that's been almost 10 years ago well now with the heating and the cooling of the seasons this floor is real oaks what swells and shrinks well in doing so it moved more than an inch up against this walls so and this is wintertime and I know the summer it's going to swell and it will buckle again if I don't fix this and you can see here that I've actually popped up and above my baseboard right here now this is the only place in the house this has done this but this is where the pressure of all the weight of all the wood the entire house pushes on this end of the floor it's a common problem then you can see by the way that I got the walls painted yesterday so the wall our painting so but try to do as little damage as possible to this base trim yeah sitting it seems to be hitting right here it seems like it's hitting those studs right there when it swells in the summer so in that case they'll be looking to go into the crawlspace putting a few screws in and drawing the floor back down where it humps up right here I'm here can you hear me here right now I'm just going all healed clocking off of the baseboard because I'm gonna be putting on some new caulking and I'm cleaning up right here I'm cleaning up the old caulking off the wall right here one nice clean paint lines down here on my on my ribs holding okay once you get all of this all scraped off of here and you get all that up throw it into a trash basket you're going to come through here to scraper and you're going to scrape off all that stuff like that right there then you're going to come through here just like this dogs are trying to get into rooms you're just going to try to kind of any of those spots that you might have tore up here with a little bit of packing let that dry and then we'll send that back off and we'll touch-up paint that okay let's go through here I'll finish hitting all those spots we run the vacuum on this we'll get it straightened out okay we're going to let that dry and then I'm just going to sand that down and then I'll touch-up paint after I put on my trim mold back on okay so we have the hump in the floor fixed this is a slight hump in the floor but there's really nothing we can do about that at this stage it's from the fact that we laid before this direction it is a solid oak floor and therefore all the pressure when it gets more about the summer comes up against this part of the wall so what we're going to do now is we've nailed the base trim back on you know I patched the walls and we got all that paint in we've got the base trim back on and now we're going to have to put on the shoe molding so instead of using that finish nailer we're going to go ahead and use the brad nailer that's just a smaller nail and it's probably going to be about an inch inch and a quarter off they're a smaller rod nail and they will not break the shoe molding this nail you want to use a longer finish now for the base trim but a broad now for the shoe hole like I said that keeps that from breaking or cracking the shoe mold it's more delicate and a lot smaller so keep that in mind and we want to hit this at the right angle so that with a brad nail you want to be sure and wear your safety goggles okay wear your safety glasses because it broad now because it's smaller and weaker it can also radiate off the wood floor so we're going to try to hit that base trim the best we can and try to shoot a nail into the bottom of that base trim right like this right here okay so that's where we're at so come on put on your safety glasses and it started okay this is going to be loud because I got to get enough air to run my pneumatic nailer in the air compressor my automatic fill air fill on that is not seem to be working for me today so I'm just watching the game from that okay and these look like they're inch-and-a-quarter now we're going to start because we brought this piece right here out to see that those fingers up we're going to go ahead and we're going to start by pinning down this piece first then we're going to put in this piece that we took out along this wall okay so we use my foot to put that down use your foot and use this right here you can even use the butt of a hammer can use the butt of the hammer and just push from put an extra one because it's right your left elbow down there we go that's in there nice and tight perfect now we're going to come down here and shop that corner right there extras about every eight 10 inches ought to do it if it's a problem where it keeps coming back especially right here where we get a lot of pressure that floor pushing up against here now I went through here and I cut back some of the wood floor so it would quit hitting the studs of this wall so in the summer when this expands with the humidity and the heat that should help remember if every one of these saw it on boards move just a tiny bit count the number of boards in your entire floor and you'll see that's several inches of movement every year the dis expands then you can't leave the wood out from underneath your your base trim your shoe mold it wouldn't look right right so you've got to give it as much room for expansion as you possibly can or you will get that bowing in the floor this is a pretty common problem with a solid oak floor if you wish to avoid the problem get an engineered floor go right here and I'll show you how to install one now we're going to go through this entire room and we're to make sure that no other baseboard has came up no other shoe mold and we'll be right back okay the door that I've installed is working well and it is a thank good it's not clothing so I mean it's nice and level the wood trim and the wood blocks on here look moving well put one more now in here there we go just check it all the work that's been done in this room and we had that room edition on we had to cut through the wall here this right here was a brick wall here in this corner so again all this wood came flowing down here and was buckled it brought up this shovel so I just got to get it back down I'm going to do push back up again a little caulking on that a little fill in it'll be fine now normally I wouldn't use near this many nails but like I said this keeps popping up when the floor keeps moving with the summer on this end of the house so had I used that I've invested and used instead of a finished neighbor on this floor and I would have use one of the Lee kick nailers I probably would not have had this problem where I am still installed the floor in other rooms I use the knee nailer the knee kick Miller where you knee kick it that was made actually for wood floors I wouldn't have had this problem but because of the swelling on the floors and stuff like that and all I used under this floor and it has kept it dry is I used a 15 Way roofing felt paper but you can see you can see right here the swelling that has gone on in this room the movements their spaces in here because it's winter but when this Wells up from summer more humidity you're going to see these gaps fill it and I'll come back the summer and I'll show that to you wood floor is just like any other piece of wood it breeds and the finish on these floors are only on the top side so you spill anything on these you can swell them up a good way to get a scratch out of for our wood floor is to put an ice cube on it and let it melt slowly on there for about 15 minutes pull the ice cube off and then maybe even might have to refinish that little spot but but that should even on a kitchen table or dining table that's a good way to get a scratch lifted and swelled up in the wood well that's the same thing that's happening in your floor when there's humidity it's breathing and it's moving and it's expanding okay i'ma go ahead go ahead one more in there we've been here put in here so sometimes you gotta check your check your work better fix things you