Cheap Wooden Flooring Hates Moisture

This one will require some guesswork on your part. No one considers water damage when they purchase their flooring. Unfortunately, though, it happens, and water can find other ways to get to your floors as well. Quality solid wooden floors will at least take some time to warp, but cheap wooden flooring is very quick to warp when subjected to moisture. Engineered wooden flooring is worse than any other. As it's a lot thinner than real wood, warping comes fast and hard. In some cases, the floor can easily warp before you even discover the leak. Newer homes and homes in relatively dry areas don't have as much to worry about, but even in those cases a burst water pipe will reach new levels of suck if cheap wooden flooring is involved.