I have heard of six degrees of separation but I discovered I had six layers of flooring in the kitchen!
How do I know this? Well a few days ago I felt this kinda weird lump as I walked in the kitchen. Nothing real big. Told the Hubby. He thought that I might have trapped some moisture between the old pergo and the layer of new rubber neoprene linoleum type flooring. So off on a business trip he went at the beginning of the week. Yesterday morning I go to the kitchen to feel branches under my feet. Unable to see any disruption in the floor, but I can feel it. SO I peel back a corner of the newly laid floor and find water......a lot of water. Pulled out the dishwasher, cause this seems to be the starting point of the branches. Low and behold a pin hole in the discharge hose. It is amazing how much water will come out when that pin hole is under pressure.
Six layers to get to the sub floor and now fans going. Looks like the sub floor will survive but I can be wrong.
I am think concrete for the kitchen floor. A nice pattern design......I can hose it off and never worry again about a leak.
Whew! I thought four was a lot when we pulled up our old floor in Wisconsin!!!
I bet after you pulled that all up you felt like you had more square footage in there, right?
I am seriously thinking about making my own hardwood floors, plank style.
I was out looking about for flooring. We are also looking for a new table top saw, if I invest in a good one with a wide dado ability I can make our own floors. I like wide plank floors. They are not popular and not in style. I went and looked at 12" wide fir boards today. I was thinking I can dado them myself and stain them. Seeing I am going with a wide width it is not that many boards.
I like older floors with character, have a country antique like for things.
I wonder what glenn thinks........OOOOOOOH GLENNNNNNN!
We have a spot like that in our kitchen floor it just bubbled up. Hubby went and knocked out walls under the house looking for a leak and we can't find one at all. I'll have to have him check for a pin whole in the washer hoses. I bet our floor has a lot of layers since our house was built in the early 1940's. I'll find out when we tear it up to fix it. :o We hadnt long put new tile down when this spot showed up either so it was a little disapointing.
Nickole
Here's what I think, Stink.
One more layer and you could open a Taco Bell.
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Wet 12" wide boards will shrink a lot, Stink -- maybe 6" wide boards and PEG says shiplap will work - preferably dried or aged about a year to minimize shrinkage. PEG can tell you about moisture content.
Dry 12" wide boards may not be as bad.
define dry......seriously.
Shiplap is a good idea...I should only have to use about 9 boards. They will all be the length of the floor itself. So no staggering with the planks. I can always take them up in a year or so and squeeze them closer maybe adding an addition inch plank?
Air dry to me is about a year of normal drying. Boards don't start shrinking until the moisture leaves from between the cells and then they start to lose their moisture.
Kiln dry from a lumber yard would be alright. I find about 5/8 inch per foot of width shrinkage so make your shiplaps deep enough.- maybe 7/8 if wet....the boards - not you, Stink.