Here where I live, the flooring is usually at 6%, and the subfloors are 9-14 percent. Higher in new construction, as they don't like to fire up the central heat until the floors are in. The dry flooring equalizes with the wetter subfloor, THEN shrinks back to a point of equalibrium, resulting in the gaps. I see lots of gapped floors up here that never close up, and they are 2 1/4 inch red oak. With all the wide plank going in now, the thought of what those floors will look like a year or two after the install is pretty scary...
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