LVT flooring gaps.

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I have an LVT glue down floor that was laid in a newbuild house in March prior to completion. The subfloor is a concrete slab that was laid almost 12 months ago.
Amongst other fitting issues including a number if scratches and bad cuts. The LVT has visible joins in a number of places (mainly end to end rarther than lengthways) , large enough to put a piece of paper in the gap. The contractor is insisting that this is acceptable and a gap between planks of up to 0.75mm is an accepted industry standard and that equals a credit card fitting in the gap. Is this correct and are these gaps likely to get worse in winter?

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Ricky Watkins
last month
Contact the manufacturer of your brand of LVT & ask the question, then if they contradict with installation team you have 100% proof either way
Daisy England
last month
Not sure about the gaps but I have LVT and there are certainly no gaps in mine and I wouldn’t have been happy with them especially bearing in mind that I use a steam cleaner to clean it which would mean the steam would go into the gaps.
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