[Gabriel]

cornflakes,May 7 2009, 07:01 PM Wrote:also at night when its really quiet....you could hear the floor creaking and cracking....i'm guessing that's the sound of the hardwood floor moving mm by mm.

My beef is that this is a brand new condo just built.  We a few thousand to upgrade to hardwood floor and we didn't cause this damage either.  Now after only 4 years the floor is already cracking up.  When the one in my bedroom showed up just shortly after this one, it's got me thinking how many more boards will be like this over the next few months?

If it was only one, fine, we could eat the cost and pay....but this is clearly a defect in installation or error in workmanship that obviously needed a couple years to surface. 

When a car is mfg'd and sold to the public but later they find out a faulty device was installed....they do recalls for like 20,000 vehicles or more.

Why shouldn't a home builder that has clearly faulted in construction not fix their mistake?  If we spent 3-4 K to upgrade to hardwood floor and only 4 years later it cracks up like this and we gotta pay a few more hundred dollars to fix it all up, does that not sound right?

Not to mention, our builder is still constructing another condo right beside us and just finished phase 2 a few months ago.
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Why is a 30000$ dollars car having 5years warranty and a builder gives you only one year warranty for a 400000$ ? BECAUSE THEY CAN .The law was made to favor them . Now what I see from your picture is a combo problem :
1. I thought this was a glue down installation since you said "wooden tiles ", I thought it was parquet which comes only glued , but no, this is a nail down install and I don't see any nails above the strips tongue ,only one dent from a nailer that seems to have ran out of ammo (nails) :) Along the whole strip there are no nails .This looks to me like 1/2" by 2and1/2" hardwood strips , possibly Satin Finish brand
2. Those strips are cupped , that shows the wood wanted to expand , but had nowhere to go . If the cupping is only 2-3 strips by the wall , that could be just too tight installation , but if you have that all over the floor ( cupping ) , that is excessive moisture in the house , alot of times generated by NOT using the A/C system during hot and humid summer time. I see this alot , but people say they are not bothered by the humidity , but trust me , hardwood is .