A portion of hardwood floor in the center of a Cleveland City, Tenn., high school basketball floor “popped out” after a period of high humidity struck while the court was not being used over the summer, according to The Chattanoogan.
An energy management system kicked in as the temperature and humidity in the building reached around 83 degrees and 60 percent, respectively, but it was not enough to prevent the floor from expanding and buckling, Hal Taylor, director of maintenance at Cleveland City School, told The Chattanoogan.
“It’s not an old-fashioned basketball floor,” he said. “It’s an advanced floating floor system with expansion joints, which were closed and caused the floor to start popping up. That lent itself to the floor swelling and then coming back down.”
The floorboards only buckled and came loose in the center of the court floor. While most of the floor in the problem area has since fallen back into place, a 4-foot-long ridge is still protruding, which will hopefully go down in the next couple weeks, Taylor said.
The basketball arena inside Cleveland High School cost $11 million and opened in April.
