Vinyl is susceptible to temperature changes in its ambient environment which will cause the vinyl flooring to expand and contract with normal hot and cold fluctuations.
Gaps in my vinyl plank flooring.
If you go towards the wall instead you may end up having to deal with gaps in adjacent planks as a result.
These are not glued down but a lock click systems.
I installed my vinyl floor planks about 9 months ago in my kitchen and it has held up well despite the traffic.
See my cheap fix for vinyl plank flooring coming apart due to temperature fluctuations.
Traditionally vinyl tiles are manufactured in such a way that when they are installed they are tight and square to each other with no gaps in.
However putting in this flooring is an art form and sometimes gaps can appear between poorly laid boards.
When using the floor gap fixer it s generally best to inch the problem plank towards the center of the floor rather than outward towards the wall.
This trick also works to disguise the edges if your floor turned out not to be perfectly flat and a little bit of a tile s edge shows.
Probably only about 5 of the seems but it s enough to make the floor look not great.
If you have this problem then you may be wondering what you can do both to improve the look of your vinyl plank flooring and also to fill in gaps.
If your new vinyl tile floor has an unsightly gap like this one you can fix it for less than 10.
I think the vinyl plank flooring was decent quality as it was quite a bit more expensive than the laminate i was looking at initially but maybe i could have bought even more expensive vinyl.
This will ensure that the far end remains concealed by the baseboard.
How to fill gaps between vinyl floor tiles.
Recently however we noticed a widening gap between 2 of the planks see pictures below.
Not really sure on that front that could be the issue.
Can this gap be fixed without.