Has anyone found wide-plank, engineered wood flooring anywhere?
Dennis Stcyr
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2 years agoOur Provenza pompeii sabatini is a wide plank rustic engineered floor. We installed it 6 years ago. It is oil cured….. The planks are 7.5 inches.
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Comments (18)My experience with Nuvelle interlock hardwood flooring is NOTHING but dissappointing. Installed the floor 2 years ago as a floating floor and it has moved away from the walls leaving about on inch gap from two of the edges and wherever there were knots in the plank the wood has split... the interlocking mechanism is failing in many areas . The inspector said it was installation error but where they say was installation error we are not having problems! It’s the incredible shrinking floor going on 2 years now and still shrinking... $6000 Down the drain. Bought from Home Depot by sun crest supply and all have used the inaccurate floor inspector report which was written a month after he inspected the floor and called to ask me questions because he couldn’t remember the inspection ! I have copies of many customers who bought the same type of floor and are having the same issues I am but Home Depot and Suncrest supply took our money and ran... no resolution for us ... saving for a new floor in the future. Be wary of the interlocking floating floor! The design is not working in our house in Colorado!...See MoreLooking for Palladio Wide Plank Engineered Wood Flooring Review
Comments (32)All wood flooring (and your cabinets, doors, frames, paint, drywall, etc) have these types of requirements. The "range" is up to the individual manufacturer to specify. I've seen bamboo that has the narrowest requirement of 45%-60%....for good reason. The GLUE that holds bamboo together is RIGID whereas the grass (bamboo is grass) is ABSORPTIVE so it MOVES. Engineered hardwoods are more specific because the layers create layers of glue...and glue acts and reacts DIFFERENTLY from the wood layers. If one expands but the other does not, you get DELAMINATION. The companies have tested their specifications under laboratory conditions and have found the BIGGEST window for "success" with their floors. They have then written those down. As for solid wood floors in old homes, remember this: the wood floors CUPPED and/or CROWNED and/or SEPARATED early on in the life of the floor. It could have taken more than a DECADE for the home to find it's equilibrium. The original owners SIMPLY PUT UP WITH IT (imagine having to 'put up' with crowned floors for 10 years...today's consumer REFUSES to accept this....so we have warranty requirements now that SPECIFY the 'happy place' for each wood product). Once the first sand/refinish occured (25 years later) the "problem" (the visual issues) with the wood were sanded away. One generation later, it looks GREAT. But no one took selfies of the floors in the '60's. And the cuts and widths were different (there is a BIG reason why 2" strip hardwood was sooooooo popular....and it wasn't because it looked good). And the wood was often sourced (and dried/racked) from local mills. And it sat longer on site before it was installed, and, and, and, and....you get the idea....See MoreHas anyone tried RockWood Hardwood for engineered flooring?
Comments (29)I just saw this, Itsoi. I left the mustard on there for 24 hours and then cleaned it off. It faded completely after a short time (maybe a couple of days, I can't remember). I never heard about conditioning it, that could be a good idea but we've been pretty harsh on ours for the past 3 months and it's holding up really well, so might do that after a year or if a specific room needs it before. I felt that the oil finish would be easier for me to do touch ups on if I needed to. Still have construction going on but we've been living here for the past 3 months. And we routinely throw balls and toys for our dog down the long runway of the living room/hall and I've yet to see her nails scratch up anything! It's been pretty impervious to our kids dripping water in the kitchen also. I don't know how it will look in 5/10 years but at the moment, I'm still really happy with our choice. It seems like a very low maintenance, easy to clean (doesn't show much dirt/dust!) floor. We paired the Rockwood Claystone with BM OC17 on our walls and like the color combo. If you're leaning towards buying it, just buy 1 box and pop it together somewhere you can look at it for a week or so. I think you'll get a pretty good idea then if you like it or not. And if you like it, you can reuse it, win win! Good luck!...See Morelooking for rustic wide planked engineered wood floor (lighter color)
Comments (7)The "white/gray" is in a wide plank is going to be what kills your budget. There are DOZENS of them out there...for $15/sf. If you must have the wide plank in silverish colour, you will want to look at European Oak. It's tones are NATURALLY silver. Yes. As it ages it turns SILVER. Which is why it is SOOOO popular right now. And popular means high demand. And just like in economics class, the rule of supply and demand is what drives the price. If you want to get AWAY from the SILVER, you can start dropping the price. There are TONS of the wide plank (anything over 5" is considered wide plank = MUCH MORE expensive to INSTALL = higher labour costs = more out of the budget). White Oak in a wide plank presentation in a NATURAL tone will offer plenty of rustic style. And for a much better price than silver/gray or European Oak (which can be VERY pricey). How wide is wide? And do you have the correct humidity control for your home heating/cooling system for wide plank wood? Ask to see if your HVAC has a humidifier/dehumidifier as part of the package. Make sure you can control your indoor humidity at the touch of a button. If you do not, you might wake up to a nasty surprise. The wider a piece of wood, the more movement it can have. Engineered planks reduce this concern but they NEVER remove it completely. There will always be a concern with humidity. Why? Because it's wood. With a budget of $9/sf (or so) you will need to know the "extras" this will cost to install wide plank (can add another $2/sf for labour simply because of the "glue assist" that is needed)....See Moremvcanada
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2 years agoCompared to Kentwood
The small sample was the Kentwood I’d chosen. The Heidelberg was twice as good for half the price.
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2 years agoHere are a couple of ours. Hope you like them. We find it almost impossible to imagine how a wide plank floor looks in your house without real pictures. It is a great idea to order a full box if you fall in love with one. Search for a local showroom with wood floor experts and go talk to them. Floor covering salespeople tend to switch you to LVPs in hurry:).
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