Most likely reason for sudden laminate floor squeaking/squelching ?

PopcornUK

For some odd reason, today the wooden flooring in our kitchen is squelching/squeaking, the entire floor, very annoying. It wasn't doing this yesterday. We had a plumber in yesterday to fit a new boiler, so not sure if maybe he cleaned up the floor afterwards with something to cause it, although I don't remember hearing the squeaking last night when in the kitchen.

Any ideas ? It is not just a single floorboard, it is the whole floor, an odd sort of squelching squeak (not a creek) as though walking through very shallow water on the beach perhaps.

We don't have a water meter so I can't check if there is a leak, but I doubt it is that.

Any ideas ? Thanks.

Ganga

Can you lift part of it to look underneath,might give you a clue.

phill99

You have a leak. You definitely have a leak. You definitely, definitely have a leak. That is the only reason water squelches under laminate flooring.

TELLIT01

You have water under the laminate flooring, and quite a bit by the sound of things.

dunroving

I agree re: leak. Look for water leaking at any point where the plumber has fitted new pipe joints. The leak could be a distance from the floor itself.

PopcornUK

Ah bummer, I can't be sure it is water though, it is just a weird squeaking squelching noise, very hard to describe. I can't see any warping on the wood or any water leaking through it.

I will look for any leaks I guess.

RelievedSheff

Squelching is water under the flooring.

Lift a piece up and you will see.

missile

Do it quickly to limit the damage.

phill99

PopcornUK wrote: »

I can't be sure it is water though,

What else can it be? Golden Syrup? Dead Mice? Bollinger Champagne?