Hello Gents,
I have a hardwood flooring question. First a little background. I have a split level home built in the early ’80’s. It has decent plywood t and g subfloor, but I am unsure of the thickness 23 / 32nds I think.
My question is can I lay 3/4 inch hardwood flooring parrallel with the floor joists, as opposed to laying perpendicular to the joists?
I would like to lay the flooring parallel to the joists in a small 12′ by 14′ dining room basically for aesthetics. The rest of the rooms would be layed perpendicular.
Thanks for any opinnions and advice.
Webby
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if your worried about the strength and asthetics why not lay it on the diagonal. there will still be no telegraphed ripple, it will brobably look killer anyhow, and it's just a different angle on the chop saw instead of 90, takes a bit longer. just a suggestion for something you may not have considered but it depends on the room to see if you can get away with it...
thanks guys. I had another contractor tell me I couldn't, so I wanted to get some second opinnions. I understand it is stronger ,and less prone to problems like rippling, if you lay perpendicular but...
I would like it to run toward the french doors, and create the effect of drawing you into the room. Webby
I just saw someplace recently that you're supposed to run the flooring towards the light. Assuming the Frenchy doors are lit, sounds like you got it!
The Wood Flooring Manufactures Association has this to say Direction of finish flooring.Direction of finish flooing should be at right angles to the joists as shown in
Fig. 4. This is generally the longest dimension of the room or building and gives best appearance.
I would not lay it parallel to the joists.
http://www.nofma.org/Portals/0/Publications/NOFMA%20Installing%20Hardwood%20Floors.pdf
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