Warped Wooden Floor

bananacakes

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cyclonebri1

I'm guessing the wooden floor you say is a laminate floor??

A proper wooden floor would not act that way from such a small amount of water.

Forget it, if the property is dry the stuff will shrink back by the time the owners sees it.

If he tries to claim from your retained deposit, ask to view again when it's fully dry.

PasturesNew

See if you can borrow a dehumidifier and stick it in that spot to draw the extra moisture out ... and see what happens.

keystone

Almost certainly laminate from the description. If so its knackered. A dumidifier will not help as once its dry it won't recover its shape or lay down again. Follow CB's advice and see what happens. Partially the landlords fault for putting laminate flooring down in the kitchen anyway. This is inevitable sooner or later.

Cheers

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keystone

Oh well if its been there since (when?) you moved in you don't have that much to worry about then I would have thought.

anguk

If it's laminate then once it's warped and gone bumpy it will never go back to normal. During the heavy rains we were flooded and the water came into the kitchen which has vinyl flooring, we lifted it and dried the place out but a few days later I noticed that the laminate in the sitting room had gone bumpy at the joints.

Some water must have seeped under the door and under the laminate without us realising (the floor itself wasn't wet). Even though everything is now dried out the flooring is still ruined, luckily it's just about 4 planks in next to the doorway and I've got some spare planks so we will be able to replace them. But in my experience once it's damaged by water it's ruined.

Personally I would never put laminate in a kitchen because of the risk of leaks.

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pmlindyloo

It is possible that the LL's insurance will cover this but the excess may not make it worth while.

So, this is all about negotiaton.

What the LL cannot do is ask for 'betterment' so they will have to take into account the age of the flooring, how long it would be expected to last, the condition of it when you moved in (am presuming there was an inventory done when you moved in and the condition was noted) and then you might be expected to pay your part of the cost of replacement.

It would seem sensible for the LL to replace it with something more suitable for a kitchen so you could ask about this and then come to some arrangement.

Of course I am assuming also that your deposit is protected so if you disagreed with what your LL wants to deduct from your deposit then you can raise a dispute with the deposit scheme.

This is time consuming and can be a 'pain'. Best to try and sort something out between yourselves.

cyclonebri1

Sounds like the OP will be long gone by then, not an issue if all said is true;)