Why Is My Hardwood Lighter Under The Rug

What is causing this.

Why is my hardwood lighter under the rug.

There is a repair job going on outside my front door where a big concrete deck that was leaking into the condos below it was jackhammered off and is in the process of repair. That said decorating with area rugs on hardwood floors is not always simple. Also if liquid is spilled on a rug and seeps onto your hardwood floor this also can cause discoloration. Fast forward a few years and the white carpet in my son s room was showing some wear.

The day before the water started collecting under my floor was the day they tested the repair job outside. Planning to remove carpet over hardwood floors. We moved into an old house about a year ago. The former owner had recently redone all the downstairs hardwood floors.

We put area rugs down in those rooms. I had my wood floors refinished 2 months ago. Under rugs the flooring is lighter. In this case i decided that was ok.

I waited 3 weeks to put furniture and rugs down on them. My hardwood floors are much lighter under my area rugs. Hardwood floors make an excellent addition to any home but they may not always pull the room together as you had envisioned. Wood floor discoloration why does it happen and what can you do to prevent your customers from blaming you.

I was vacuuming last week and rolled back the rug to vac underneath and found that there is an outline of the rug on the refinished floor. Some basic cleaning techniques can be applied to restore your hardwood floor. My husband has been in the wood flooring business for 20 years and is a 3rd generation wood flooring man. The padding under the carpet also is rolled up and removed but it will be easier to carry.

Next carefully pry up the tack strips while trying to avoid scratching the floor. In an attempt to keep it from getting scratched we covered the floor with a large rug and non slip pad underneath with 18 of exposed wood all around the border. Fading and discoloration in a wood floor may be caused by rugs. He recently sanded a heartpine floor for a customer that had several area rugs and furniture under the rugs the flooring was lighter.

Step 1 sweep up any loose dust or debris from the discolored area of your hardwood floor. You have to choose from a huge collection of patterns colors and. The only explanation i can think of is. Now 10 years later we are retiring and downsizing from a home into an apartment and in preparation to put the house on the market we found that the wood under the rug is much lighter.

Because getting rid of that carpet meant finding out what kind of hardwood floor was under there. The other week i noticed that the wood floors were much lighter underneath these rugs than the rest of the floor. I don t have a skylight or large windows and it s only been a few weeks since the floors were done. A rug blocks the uv light from hitting the floor which can cause uneven fading of the wood.