Learning To Crawl On Hardwood Floors

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Learning to crawl on hardwood floors.

Maintain your floor properly using the right cleaning methods and products made specifically for wood floors. 1 mom found this helpful. Pilot hole through the hardwood flooring. You don t need carpets or knee pads.

Hardwood floors are much easier for crawling because wood actually gives whereas ceramic tile concrete etc. Also i can t image your baby can move a whole couch. If you live in a place with humid summers you may just need to run it seasonally to keep your wood floors in top shape year round. Installing a hardwood floor directly over a crawlspace exposes the wood to moisture from the ground and from the air in the crawlspace.

It isn t necessary to hit a joist below. If the cause of the squeaking is a result of hardwood floors rubbing against the plywood subfloor underneath you can drive a short wood screw up through the bottom of the subfloor and into the. Your baby will be fine learning to crawl and walk on hardwoods. If you have a hard floor you may want to have a mat to help protect them when they fall.

Don t worry he ll figure it all out. Next put a screw through the counter snap s depth control fixture and into the pilot hole. It may take her a little longer to learn to crawl my kids wouldn t crawl on the wood floor parts of our house for awhile after they started crawling on the carpet. Drive in the screw until it automatically snaps off below the surface of the wood.

Up until recently my eng wood floors looked great with a smooth surface and sat perfectly flat and solid onto of the cement. And i ve seen baby pants with padded knees maybe start looking around for those. My boys learned to crawl on hardwood floors and the worst part about it is the constantly dirty knees no matter how often i cleaned the floors. But her little head is not that far from the floor so bonking it shouldn t do any serious harm.

You can read all about baby standing milestones and how to help your baby when they start walking here. Im having an issue with my engineered wood floors which were installed in my condo almost 5 years ago on top of the original cement floors which were already 20 years old. Congrats on your little one. If you don t have many carpeted areas in your home you may want to consider getting a nonslip rug or floor padding you can find colorful floor pads made especially for little ones at baby stores to give your baby the chance to crawl on some soft surfaces and reduce any bruising to her tender knees.

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