DW wants to replace the cheapo ceramic time in a powder room with wood. I happen to have some 9″ pine boards available. The room is about 3 ft x 7 ft with the door in the middle of a long side, potty left, sink right.
The hallway is also ceramic, so there is no direction to match. Would you install the long way or the short way?
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Run the long way, but be sure to seal it up good first on all sides, and still be willing to accept the risk that if it gets sodden you are in trouble.There are pine floors here that have been down in bathrooms for a hundrd years. Some show damage and some do not. IMO, it is more a matter of maintanance - never do it in a rental, for instance, but it can be done and done well.
Just balance the risk against your lifestyle.
Another way of avoiding the damages is to eliminate the condensation swaet on the toilet tank. In summer humidity, that cool surface can keep a floor under it wet. There are drip catches that look like h3ll, but many people use a heater in line or a mixing valve that adds hot water to the tank mixed sso it is room temp or so.
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Pif, it is DW's idea. We went to a restaurant last week that is very old, and they had wide pine floors. That just seemed to intensify her desire to do it at our place.
Lifestyle is two grown people (one who acts like an adult) with no pets and infrequent visits from the kids.
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I would be reluctant to use pine for any floor, but I think the flooring looks best if it runs with the long dimension of the room.
One of the worst installations I ever saw was flooring running across a hallway. - lol
FastEddie,
I'm with others here, pine in this application I think would be a big mistake.. it's soft and the the resulting dents in wood would break the finish and expose the woodfibers to moisture which would be a real disaster..
Diagonal, best of both worlds.
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The beauty of pine is the patina it develops over the years. I see nothing wrong with putting it in a powder room. If it was a full bath with med to heavy use that would be another thing. I just got done laying about 800 sf of 1x12 pine flooring today in fact.
If I read this right, the hall runs perpendicular to the long run of the bath? If that's the case, I would install the long way for both spaces and do a nice tight deliniation joint under the doorway. If hall and bath run parallel to one another, I always install rooms the long way. It just looks better and makes the room more comfortable.
Jer, the hall will remain tile.
Do you have a poicture of your floor?
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I'll try and get a picture posted after it has been finished.