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 Post subject: Solid Wood Floors Grow Up?
PostPosted: Wed Nov 10, 2004 2:52 pm 
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Never heard that one before--anyone else?

"As we mentioned, the solid wood floors expand more than the engineered, and they expand vertically as well as horizontally. While you get little to no vertical expansion with most engineered wood floors, you may get a lot of this vertical expansion with the solid floors. Vertical expansion is when the boards will actually grow up and shrink down in addition to the side to side or horizontal expansion and contraction. The end result of this can be raised boards that sometimes catch your shoes and become a trip hazard."


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"Since the free floating wood floors do not actually touch the sub-floor, there is a near zero chance that you will have any problems with this floor"

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Must be a sales pitch from a company manufacturing floating floors. While rift and quarter sawn boards do expand with the grain, which faces up, I doubt it would be enough to "catch your shoes and become a trip hazard!" That is unless it was FLOODED! I'm just guessing but would this statement have been made by an oriental flooring company? Sort of sounds like it. I like the zero problem floor idea! Does that come with a LIFETIME GUARANTEE? :roll:


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Gary:

Actually it comes from a well known online company. It does seem to indicate they're trying to push floating floors. I caught the message in another online forum where the poster mentioned "read such and such's site on hardwood flooring differences"

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