Hello folks,

I'm a completely hopeless amateur when it comes to these things, so I'm hoping you'll be able to give me a helping hand.

I recently suffered from a flooding which left a section of my rectangular, wooden tiles warped. The effect was to make it look like something was trying to burst up through the floor. A number of amateur solutions (i.e. standing, jumping, putting a dictionary on them...yes, I know) ended up dislodging several tiles which won't now fit back into their slots. Any suggestions as to how I could 'unwarp' the tiles and slot them back into their positions?

Cheers!

Ben

Only time will solve your problem, sorry. What you could do the 'speed' things up a bit, without further damaging the tiles is making sure all water is gone (but I'm sure you alreayd done that), ventilate as much as possible to get the excess humidity out and hope for the best.
The wood will shrink back eventually, but if all will fit nicely flat again only time will tell.

Benpipe Wrote:

Hello folks,

I'm a completely hopeless amateur when it comes to these things, so I'm
hoping you'll be able to give me a helping hand.

I recently suffered from a flooding which left a section of my
rectangular, wooden tiles warped. The effect was to make it look like
something was trying to burst up through the floor. A number of amateur
solutions (i.e. standing, jumping, putting a dictionary on them...yes, I
know) ended up dislodging several tiles which won't now fit back into
their slots. Any suggestions as to how I could 'unwarp' the tiles and
slot them back into their positions?

Cheers!

Ben

hehe. Tiles bend because one side contains more water than the other,
the wetter side swells. Let them dry out and they will more or less
flatten, but may not fully. If you want to ensure complete flatness,
wet the concave side, let all surface water evaporate, and clamp the
thing flat under serious pressure, and keep there till the wood fully
dries out. A dictionary does not constitute serious pressure, 100
dictionaries per tile might be closer.


NT

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Hello folks,

I'm a completely hopeless amateur when it comes to these things, so I'm
hoping you'll be able to give me a helping hand.

I recently suffered from a flooding which left a section of my
rectangular, wooden tiles warped. The effect was to make it look like
something was trying to burst up through the floor. A number of amateur
solutions (i.e. standing, jumping, putting a dictionary on them...yes, I
know) ended up dislodging several tiles which won't now fit back into
their slots. Any suggestions as to how I could 'unwarp' the tiles and
slot them back into their positions?

The corners are curled up because the floor is damper than the air
above - a dehumidifier will accelerate the drying or you could lift
them all. You could stack them up (concave to concave, convex to
convex, a few layers of newspaper between to wick the moisture) and
clamp them between a couple of pieces of thick board or steel plate
with some threaded bar, to encourage them to dry flat, but they'll
dry a lot slower that way.