Asked the guy who laid my wood flooring why there are gaps between the wood that was laid etc and this was his response
"With the hardwood flooring there is obviously a chamfer on each board which is there because you would never get them all to match up perfectly if there wasn't a groove. There are a couple of boards that aren't butted together perfectly all the way along which is due to a slight bump in the floor in the hallway at the living room door which causes a perfectly straight and flat line to become a slight curve. Therefor the gap is bigger at each end and tighter in the middle. (hope ur still following, lol) but our hope is that as the boards expand due to the moisture and heat in the house, the gaps will close up as a couple of the more obvious ones already did in the time we were away. This will still leave the groove though as that's just the way the flooring is made, in fact it's the way all hardwood or engineered flooring is made. Laminate normally doesn't have the groove unless it's trying to imitate real wood."
Wondering what people's experiences have been