Please Post Pics of your 5' wide floors or 3.25' wide floors
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Show me your wide plank flooring.
Comments (11)See Chapter 3 of the USDA 'Wood Engineering Handbook.' Glue is not going to prevent warping and wood movement. All wood moves with moisture content, and there is no practical way of stopping it. Wider planks are going to have larger gaps during the winter than narrower planks. Figure 3-3 is especially good at showing how the shape of wood changes depending on its orientation to the trees growth rings. And not all wide planks warp in objectionable ways. Here is a link that might be useful: Wood Handbook, Chapter 3...See Moreplease help! need pics of wide hardwood flooring any species.
Comments (3)I hope it is not too late in responding to you. We replaced our "cheap" engineered floors 4 years ago with a 5/8" engineered redoak over 9 layer base. It comes prefinished, but we chose the unfinished wood in order to finish on site. Some leveling had to be done, as some areas had been carpet. Then it was glued down. We had it hand scraped with the grain, then stained and finished. I had two colors mixed, as I did not want red, but wanted dark brown (the red oak and scraped areas will take the stain darker and lighter in areas)but not black. I really wanted the wider planks but just could not go the extra money with all the other out of pocket expenses we had. I went with 3 inch and really worried how it would look and if I would be happy. There is some sanding once installed and before staining. While nothing is 100% dustless, it was not bad. I was expecting worse. We have a son with severe allergies to air born allergens/dust mites, etc and he was fine. He as asthma as well (not allergy onset) and was never bothered. However, we did not live in the house during installation. I am happy to report that I still LOVE my floors every time I look at them. I had area rugs under the piano and coffee table, but they did not last long. Covered up too much of my beautiful floor. Recently, we had a hot water heater flood a hallway that was under water for about an hour. After all was said and done, not one millimeter of finish was damaged and not one board warped, cupped, popped, etc. Exellent installation is a key when installing any product. Good Luck Here are a couple of photos. Depending on the time of day, which lamps are on, and how much natural light is coming in, the floors can take on different hues of brown. Here is a link that might be useful: Shamrock Flooring...See MoreTrim Height for 5' wide Engineered Hardwood Flooring
Comments (10)ajsmama, your Brazilian Cherry floors are beautiful and so is your trim and steps. Thanks for sharing. The trim looks so nice since I am used to half my carpet covering my almost 3.5" trim. Laurie, That price sounds great and the height and width sounds perfect. I will have to look into this since I want my baseboard to be self-primed. My floors are now totally bare. My brother owed me and he finally decided to help me out by removing the carpet, pad, tackless, and trim (he labeled the trim to save but it is not in the best of shape). He left the trim and quarter rounds on the Porcelain tile foyer areas and told me the flooring guy will have to decide what to do with that since my brother sells, repairs and installs carpet for a living. He removed all the bad CVT tile in the utility room so someone can install tile that was not water damaged and cracking. He left the destroyed trim there that is so water damaged. The flooring guy can't come by until Thursday. I have to try to clean the floor again since it was SO dirty. I got all the nails off the floor and one layer of dust, plaster and dirt and the little Styrofoam balls that must have fell from the ceiling and were under the padding under the carpet from 20 years ago! I swept so now tomorrow I will vacuum. I hope a painter can start before the floor is installed. Squirrel, I agree with you that I invested so much money into a new floor that I also feel I would be happier with new taller trim or at least new trim. Thank you everyone! Anymore input and/or pictures would be appreciated. Thanks for being there for me. My little dogs are in my bedroom with me since that is where my computer is now. I can't work and I need to work. I ran out of toner and all my files are downstairs in the hot garage. I really wish someone would start my floor first before the painting since the dogs and me are all stressed out seeing the ugly cement floor everywhere downstairs. I wish I was also removing the torn linoleum kitchen floor but that is a project for next year, along with a new dishwasher since mine is almost 20 years old and leaks and does not match my stainless steel French Door refrigerator....See MoreYOUR THOUGHTS: Wide Plank Flooring Width
Comments (33)@dough71 - It "sounds" nice to hear that you need 2' lengths for closets. But long planks will be CUT throughout the job, leaving a pile of shorts. Those shorts are then recycled to finish rows or go inside closets. A dealer who speaks of average lengths and then mentions the 2' shorts is trying to shuffle in the low-low end stuff so HE isn't left with waste. I would ask the PERCENTAGE of 2' lengths you can expect to receive. Houzz has seen DOZENS (if not hundreds) of posters complain that their "promised" 8' planks arrived as a bunch of 4' planks making up 50% of the load. And not enough overage to "cull" the shorts. As for your question about seeing homes with wide planks that look great, you are correct. But I'm going to add a caveat to that statement. Those old, wide boards have reached an equilibrium and are now in harmony with it's house. That can take 20+ years to achieve. And then they have probably already received a sand/refinish with "knocked down" the crowning/cupping to make the whole floor look flat and happy. Let's just say that the "growing pains" of those old, wide planked floors are WELL behind them and they now LOOK happy...but they started out a complete mess...for many decades. Then a sand/refinish occurred and NOW they look awesome! That's how old wide planks in old unconditioned homes "look great". They've already finished their rebellious years....See Morelyfia
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