If you have any additional questions regarding these common problems with hardwood floors, feel free to.

Wide plank hardwood flooring cupping. I am doing new construction on the coast in nj, hardwood floors throughout. Most any engineered hardwood floors can go over radiant heat (check the manfacturer's specs), solid hardwood cannot. The living room of this house has 140 year old original 4″ wide 3/4″ thick wood floors underneath the wall to wall carpet, half of the wood planks are super water damaged,.

We produce precisely milled wide plank hardwood floors from new, reclaimed, and recycled wood. Instead of the standard ¾ inch plank (which makes up most hardwood flooring) a wide plank can be a plank ranging anywhere. Moistures get accumulated under the plank floors, which results in cupping.

Inadequate support from the underlayment. I've been seriously considering ordering carlisle wide plank flooring's. Bare in mind, solid wood floor is more prone to warping and cupping than engineered wood flooring;

Wide planks also provide more visual interest, since the full wood grain and unique details from the particular species can be seen. The simplest way to think of wood floor cupping is to imagine the edges of each plank sticking up higher than the centers. Floor beds get affected by the change in humidity.

Plank thickness is not very important for narrow hardwood flooring planks. In some cases, the boards may be 7 or 8 inches wide or wider. Engineered hardwood flooring is the only way to go!

These standards prescribe milling tolerances for widths of +. If i face nail, do i need to nail through the tongue too? However, some cautions are associated with wide plank.