Looks like bamboo or laminate click flooring to me.
Edit: Looking at those new pics he posted though looks like you might be right. The backs look like tiles so maybe it’s that tile that is printed to look like wood/bamboo. If that’s the case then he can pull the tiles and lay down some tile cement and put the tiles back after cutting the door one a little so it fits.
It’s really weird to not have grout if it’s tiles as that would make the floor not waterproof.
You know, that does look like they grouted it. You might be able to get away with just removing that grout/caulk and then just redoing the pattern. If the floor can’t move it will buckle but the pattern will make that problem even worse. So with both problems it was kind of just a given. If they added that grout because the whole floor moves then you can get non slip underlay to prevent that movement.
Yeah, it looks like whoever installed it didn’t know what they were doing. You should be able to fix it fairly easy but it’s going to have to be the whole floor since there doesn’t appear to be a gap. You’d have to pull the whole floor up and reinstall them all making sure to leave a 0.5-1 cm gap around the perimeter and properly aligned like in the picture I posted above. The person probably didn’t leave a gap because it will look like shit and stuff will get in it since there is no baseboard. A better option might be to pull it and put vinyl planks in there instead of laminate. Vinyl planks have less thermal expansion than wood or laminate so you wouldn’t have to leave an unsightly gap or install baseboards.
It’s probably bamboo flooring looking at the pattern but it might be laminate made to look like bamboo.
Well you can see the courses are wrong just from the picture so you should fix that first. It’s fairly easy to do since one is already popped up.
To figure out if there is an expansion gap just take off one of you base boards. There should be a centimeter or so gap near the walls. If there isn’t that’s going to suck a lot more than just redoing the pattern since you might have to start trimming an edge or two of the entire room.
So you know how bricks aren’t lined up in neat rows vertically? You need to stagger the courses of flooring in a similar way. Also you need to leave an expansion gap around the perimeter of the entire room for when the wood expands. Also did you let this flooring heat up in the room for a full day before installation? Not letting it acclimate can lead to this but the most likely culprit is just not lining up the joints like that.
Yeah. I agree with you. I was working off only a couple pictures which made it look like lvp or laminate. He added extra ones later that showed they were tile.