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Hot take: I tried a full pour and trowel on a big glue-down LVT job and the floor started moving after 24 hours
It was a 1500 sq ft office space, and I used the standard trowel and spread rate from the product sheet. The adhesive seemed to set up fine, but the next day, whole sections had a slight ripple you could feel underfoot. I think the slab might have had more moisture than the test showed, or maybe the adhesive flash time was off in the heat. Now I'm debating if a roll-on moisture barrier would have been smarter, or if I should have just stuck with a standard notch trowel application. Has anyone else had a glue-down LVT fail like this on a seemingly dry slab?
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the_wesley2mo ago
So the floor just wanted a massage?
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mitchell.wade2mo ago
Man, a full pour and trowel just to get a magic carpet ride the next day? That's the floor's way of saying it wanted a wave pool, not an office. So the slab was dry on paper but still pulled a fast one, huh? Classic concrete, always hiding a little secret sweat party. Maybe next time just use a spray bottle and call it a day.
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Yeah it's like that with so many stuff, right? Like @the_wesley's massage joke is spot on because it's all about hidden pressure. My old car looked fine but the brakes were secretly shot. Or a phone that says it has 20% battery and then just dies. Things pretend to be set and then they just... aren't. Concrete sweating, tech lying, it's all the same vibe lol.
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