Vinyl flooring
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Vinyl flooring lifting at joints
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General wear
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Vinyl was inadequately glued during installation
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Poorly prepared substrate
Vinyl tile flooring lifting at joints
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General wear
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Inadequately glued during installation
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Poorly prepared substrate
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Moisture getting into the joints
Vinyl flooring shrinking – joints opening up
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Plasticizer loss (plasticizer is a component used in vinyl manufacture to make the vinyl flexible) – can be accelerated by darker colours and where the vinyl is in direct sunlight
Vinyl or linoleum – substrate visible through flooring
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Flooring has been laid directly over floorboards or uneven substrate
Vinyl or linoleum flooring has bubbles under
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Moisture evaporation in the concrete floor slab due to insufficient curing of slab before flooring was laid
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Moisture evaporation in the concrete floor slab due to damaged or non-existent damp-proof membrane under slab
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High subfloor moisture level infiltrating through a suspended timber floor
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Loss of adhesion due to incompatible solvents and flooring