New dishwasher has flooded new hardwood floors. Help!

Kc
by Kc
Still drying out the floors but there is already some cupping. I have put heavy handweights on the worst raised edges. Any other ideas to lessen the damage while I wait for it to dry out?

  3 answers
  • Robyn Garner Robyn Garner on Jul 20, 2017

    Did a contractor install the dishwasher??? If so, file a claim with them because clearly they did something wrong during installation. Let them and their insurance cover the cost of replacing the damaged floor!

  • Run as many portable fans you can round up. Borrow from friends, family, neighbors. Who installed the new dishwasher? If installation error you have consumer recourse for damages.

  • C. D. Scallan C. D. Scallan on Jul 20, 2017

    This why (when I owned a flooring installation company ) I was always adamantly against hardwood floors in the kitchen . Life happens more often than we like to think about. Usually this kind of thing happens when the person is at work or leaves to go on vacation and the entire kitchen and laundry , if not the whole house floods. There is no one home to turn off the water at main. File with your home owners insurance . If wasn't the fault of a newly installed dishwasher , your home owners will cover it . Please consider ceramic tile this time around ?