What are my flooring options?
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What are my flooring options for bathroom with heated floor?
Comments (3)I was just checking out a product called Mannington Adura; a luxury vinyl that is installed in 6, 12 or 16 inch 'tiles'. I was curious about heating the floors and the man at the store said you could lay heating mats with these vinyl tiles. By the way they are thick and not floppy like you might imagine vinyl to be. I really don't know much more about this product but I really like the look (like real stone) and the fact that you don't have to have grout and it feels much nicer than tile or stone. So this is a product you may want to check out....See MoreRadient Heat - What Are My Wood Flooring Options?
Comments (2)Wood is about R1 per inch, so yes, a thicker plank will have more resistance to heat movement than a thinner plank. But when you're talking about 3/4" for solid strip hardwood versus 5/8" or 1/2" for an engineered plank, that's a differential of R-0.25 or R-0.125, it's not terribly significant. It's not the thickness, but the stability, that's the main advantage that an engineered plank will give over a solid strip hardwood. The ply structure is generally more stable and really does a nice job of minimizing movement. Quarter-sawn, along with choosing a stable species, will be your best bet when going the solid wood route. But in general, an engineered plank will still be more stable than quartersawn. You can get around that a bit by using less wide strips. Example, if movement occurred, an 8" wide plank floor would have wider gaps between planks than a 2" wide strip floor. Going with narrower strips can hide movement. Glue-down is preferable to me over floating. Bostik's is my preferred adhesive. Aluminum Oxide from the factory is more durable than site-finished. There are engineered strips that have a thicker wear layer. Some of the engineered floorings 15 or 20 years ago only had a 1/16th" veneer of "show wood". It took a careful screening to refinish them. So look for a thicker wear layer, it'll resist punctures from dropped items and you can get several screening refinishings or even full-fledged sanding refinishes out of them. Going with solid wood strips, mesquite, teak, wenge, padauk, purpleheart, those are "exotics" that are all fairly stable. Maple isn't. Brazilian cherry can have a bit of movement, though I have installed 5" wide quartersawn BC planks with no ill effects. Much of the success or failure with solid wood over RFH is species choice, flat versus rift or quartersawn, and the overall design of the RFH system. I shoot for a minimum of 3 times the "R" factor underneath the RFH loops that there is above the RFH loops. That keeps the heat going where it's designed and intended to go, and allows for low water temps in the loops....See Morecarpeting discontinued...what are my options?
Comments (9)Well, on your collective advice, I called Lowe's. They gave me a phone number to the supplier, the supplier looked it up and told me it was still available special order from Lowe's. I called Lowe's back and it took several hand-offs, look-ups, and calls for help, but they eventually confirmed that they could indeed order it. I stopped by Lowe's on the way home and ordered a measure. Yay! Thanks everyone, you guys are the greatest!! And chinchette, we're just 2 adults that don't wear shoes in the house, so we should be okay with the carpet....See MoreSupply lines above subfloor, what are my options?
Comments (6)I had a similar situation when I re-did mt MBR. We purchased a double sink basin piece of furniture with legs. You can not see the pipes without laying down on the floor. My next door neighbor also refinished his MBR - exactly same arrangement. He stripped all of the sheetrock off the wall and heavily insulated the wall cavity. He then ran the piping up the inside of the new sheet rock and then built false wall stubbed out the width of the 2X4 "studs" and contained the pipes in that cavity. Lost a few inches of floor space and cost some bucks compared to my approach....See Moreindigoheaven
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