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I’m looking for advice about laying wide pine over radiant heat. My client wants to uses flooring to match the original type in this renovation project. I’m not sure how the radiant heating will affect the stability of the wide I&I floors. The job is in coastal RI and the floors will probably be installed after the heat season this year but long before next fall. Any advice?
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Dan
I laid such a floor ( no radient heat though), in wide board pine (10" & 12" stock) knowing from past experience that the shrinkage was going to be formidable. My approach was to lay the boards loose, good face down in each room, then move the furniture back in ( the house was occupied during the whole restoration project). This was in April, by July when I was wrapping up the job The new stock had taken up approximately 10" over 18 feet. I used shims at one end of the floor against the wall plate to keep the inverted boards snug to each other, enough to prevent tripping. With radient heat I'd leave them like that for at least a year and use at least a case of PL Premium per room when you flip them over. Figured out how you are going to nail them yet?..........murph
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I'm looking for advice about laying wide pine over radiant heat. My client wants to uses flooring to match the original type in this renovation project. I'm not sure how the radiant heating will affect the stability of the wide I&I floors. The job is in coastal RI and the floors will probably be installed after the heat season this year but long before next fall. Any advice?