Friend let the pipes freeze, blew a compression fitting off a 1/2″ pipe which flooded most of the unoccupied ranchers oak flooring.
So the question is “are there ways to minimize the cupping”?
Should she dry the house low and slow with low non-freezing heat and no dehumidifier or should she dry the house up quickly with high heat and dehumidifiers?
The house was built in the 60’s, has a plywood subfloor and a unfinished basement.
Any suggestions?
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Greetings Mike,
This post in response to your question will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someones eye that can help you with advice.
Cheers
This post in response to your question will bump the thread through the 'recent discussion' listing again.
Perhaps it will catch someones eye that can help you with advice.
Cheers
Rez, do you copy and paste this everytime you bump a post or do you retype everytime?
Just curious.
heh heh
It's might be true I have two speeds,
slow and slower,
but I ain't that anal.
ROAR!
Edited 1/30/2005 6:47 pm ET by rez
Well, what I do is keep a copy of a post in my favorites to copy when needed.
It's such a small and easy thing to do. Some of us climb all over this site a lot. Mike S. is more of an old regular here and knows how things go.
I generally wait to see if a post goes unanswered for a few days in the Energy..., Construction, or General Discussion folders. Usually if a post goes that long it's history.
But sometimes there will be a newbie or a first time poster that will get on here with a real question asking for help and somehow falls thru the cracks without a single reply to them.
That's ugly. No one should ever come here looking for an answer and not even get an acknowledgement of some kind.
Looks bad on the site.
Almost as bad as whole thread deletes without a word. But there is nothing we can do about that.
be a pet peeve
Edited 1/30/2005 7:59 pm ET by rez
Great ambassador you are, Rez. Thanks.
Well, what I do is keep a copy of a post in my favorites to copy when needed.
You mean favorites as in IE as oppose to favorites as in your profile which is blank.
Just wondering if you have your own search engine to find all those newbie posts and those that had fallen through the cracks, how do you keep track?
In IE pulldown menu.
Every few days I visually scan those 3 folders for an unread post that says '1 new' on it.
Makes me work up a big sweat from all the hard labor involved.
Probably beats being a moderator on some of these threads.
Those guys should get hazard pay. ROAR!
be sides, my profile isn't empty.
Thanks for the Bump Rez, it's much appreciated.
Imerc and Hammer thanks for your input also.
Yeah, my thought was to dry it out as soon as possible, to keep moisture from getting deeper into the wood, less wood to get wet means less wood to swell. But then I was concerned that drying it out too fast could cause it's own set of problems like warping.
When I left the house on Wednesday the temp was set @ 65 with a forced hot air furnace, I recommended a dehumidifier, but I don't think that happened.
If it doesn't cup I'll post. Mike
It's O.k. to think out of the box, Just don't walk off of the plank!
The floor will flatten out once it has dried and the slower the better.
I've done a lot of insurance work and I always recommend a small fan blowing across the surface with good ventilation to the area. It will take several weeks on a timber sub-floor -- several months on a concrete slab. Heat and de-humidification risk warping the timber permanently.
IanDG
I would run the dehumidifier and normal temps..
refinish...
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I had a similar situation when a storm blew in a side door that wasn't shut all the way. The boards that are cupped will stay cupped no matter what is done. Sorry. The floor will have to be replaced, you can't sand out cupping reasonably. Either that or live with it.
Beat it to fit / Paint it to match