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[Peter]

No, not where the sub floor is good. There are one or two battens that are slightly loose, and there is a bit of movement, but overall its pretty good.

 

The boards are 18mm thick, secret nailed with 50 mm nails. L cleats would have been better but I didnt want the hassle of hiring a portanailer.

[tommer9]

To stop movement in hardwood floors, even if they are kilned as low as 6% as for underfloor heating, you MUST acclimatise the boards in the room where they are to be laid for as long as possible. 6 weeks is ideal. Most houses are damper than a kiln, and drier than the wood would be if air dried.(in the uk it is nigh on impossible to air dry timber to less than about 22% M.C)

Stress grooving the underside of the boards will also help. 18mm is quite a nice thin board too, so there is more chance of the nail holding it, although i have seen 20mm boards cup so badly that they ripped the cleat nail through themselves and ;eft a small layer of wood attached to the sub floor as glue had been used aswell!!

[Peter]

These are stress grooved, didnt quite get 6 weeks as it was a bit of a rush job. Seems ok so far though, I guess the warehouse must have been about as damp as my front room.

[tommer9]

They look well nice. Most commercially available solid oak flooring comes like that and is very stable. The example i used was in a barn conversion and the floor was laid 3 times until it was realised that there was water ingress!!!

[Peter]

It is prefinished too, which I'd imagine makes a difference?

 

Had a definite Chinese look to it as well.

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:adore:eddie izzard would struggle to go off on a tangent as much as this thread...

[tommer9]

:adore:eddie izzard would struggle to go off on a tangent as much as this thread...

 

sooo......yeees. (in an e.izzard stylee)

 

Oi- butt out you, this is our flooring thread now:sneaky2:

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:boxing:reckon we'll sort this out up a tree sarvo...

[tommer9]

You're on....I have my tutu at the ready lol

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are we going up this tree or what??