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Cold Floors? Radiant Heat and the Best Floors For Them
Cold floors? It's that time of year again and radiant heated floors can help. Before you buy, check out our species and styles most recommended for this application.
As you may know, some wood species are better candidates for radiant heat installation than others. If you prefer solid wood floors, chose a species know for its stability. Here is the order for best floor type selections as recommended by the National Wood Flooring Associations (NWFA).
Floating Wood Floors and Laminates - Highly recommended because they tend to move as a total unit better accommodating moisture and temperature changes.
Engineered Flooring - Works well with radiant heat because of its dimensionally stable plywood construction. This construction allows each wood layer to run perpendicular to the other thereby resisting movement and moisture fluctuations.
Quarter Sawn or Rift-Sawn Flooring - This cut or style of flooring is preferable to plain sawn because it will expand upwards and downwards from elevated moisture, not side to side, producing less gapping and board edge cupping.
Strip Flooring - A better choice than plank flooring because narrow board expand and contract less than wide boards do because there are more seams in a floor to take up or allow for any excessive board movement.
If you choose to use solid boards or planks wider than 3", make sure the board moisture content is dry, around 6-9% before, and maintained well after installation. For any wood application over radiant heat, the newly installed system should be operating some two weeks prior to the floor installation. This helps to further dry out any unknown pockets of trapped moisture. Acclimation is critical with radiant heat installations to prevent board shock. In no case should radiant heat exceed 85 degrees. Maintain indoor humidity levels around 35-55%.
Although common red and white oak have been used successfully, species 15-20% higher in stability than red oak are considered ideal choices. See our Stability Chart for boards listed on the higher stability spectrum.
It is true that Brazilian Cherry is more stable than red oak. However, we do not recommend it for radiant heat applications. Due to the sustained high heat associated with radiant heat, it can have a negative impact on Brazilian Cherry. Natural oils, calcification, and other properties of this species can slowly migrate to the surface just under the clear top finishes manifested as small whitish oxidation spots. This whitish calcification is a characteristic of the species, not a defect. Individual boards showing this can be replaced with new boards, it cannot be sanded out.
Good Species for Radiant Heat Applications: Australian Cypress, Bolivian Rosewood, Koa, Mesquite, Teaks, Bloodwood, and Mahogany.
Poor Species for Radiant Heat Applications: Maple, Beech, and Birch
*Wood Stability - A measured amount of movement that can be expected in some species of wood after installation. Species stability is directly related to local humidity, temperature, and surface moisture. Therefore, acclimation for radiant heat is very important for a successful installation.
Note - Even when using and ideal species for radiant heat applications, actual wood performance can still vary due to the radiant heat system construction, installation techniques, as well as your region of the country.
About the Author
Lumber Liquidators (NYSE: LL) began with a very humble start in 1993 when Tom Sullivan, a building contractor, began purchasing excess wood that other companies didn't need and reselling it from the back of a trucking firms yard in Stoughton, Massachusetts. This eventually led to the company finding their niche market in hardwood flooring in 1996. The first store opened on January 5, 1996 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts and sold 150 sq ft of floors that first day. Eight months later they opened a second store in Hartford, Connecticut and the increase continued ever since. Over the past 10 years the company has had steady growth with stores in 43 states and over 500 employees. Lumber Liquidators has grown to over 140 locations nationwide and more stores are slated to open this year. In order to be closer to the ports and for better distribution channels the company moved their headquarters from Boston to an 80,000 sq ft warehouse in Colonial Heights, Virginia in 1999. They thought that was all the space they would ever need, but by 2004 they were bursting at the seams and purchased a 306,000 sq ft distribution center in Toano, Virginia where they are now headquartered. This state-of-the-art facility is a far cry from the original headquarters in Massachusetts which had no running water, and a porta-john in the parking lot!
Lumber Liquidators prides itself with having one of the largest inventories of pre-finished and unfinished hardwood floors in the industry. They offer a variety of brands for residential and commercial construction, including Bellawood Pre-finished Hardwood Floors in domestic and exotic species with a 50 year pre-finish warranty. In addition to the variety of solid and engineered hardwood floors, Lumber Liquidators also carries laminate flooring, bamboo flooring, cork flooring, and butcher blocks.
Lumber Liquidators negotiates directly with the mills to buy an entire years production. This tactic eliminates the middleman and allows the savings to be passed on to the customers who appreciate the "hardwood flooring for less" method of buying. The environmentally conscientious company only purchases from suppliers who practice sustainable harvesting, which allows forests to heal and re-grow faster.
Lumber Liquidators has been recognized by Virginia Business as part of their Fantastic 50 two years in a row and Inc. Magazine's 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies. Chairman and Founder, Tom Sullivan was named Ernst and Young's 2003 Virginia Entrepreneur of the Year. Lumber Liquidators has also been seen nationally in Home and Garden Television's Dream Home, weekly on ABC's Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, and on This Old House. Even the stars can appreciate a good deal on quality floors. Lumber Liquidators' floors can be found in the homes of notable figures such as the late Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Donald Trump, Angelina Jolie, Kim Basinger and numerous others.
Lumber Liquidators is the largest independent retailer in the United States, specializing in hardwood flooring (as ranked by Floor Focus Magazine, 2006). LumberLiquidators.com was recognized as a Top 50 website by Internet Retailer in 2007. Lumber Liquidators has one of the largest inventories of pre-finished and unfinished hardwood flooring in the industry. From Birdseye maple to Bolivian rosewood to 89-cent oak!
Everything Lumber Liquidators sells (unless specified otherwise) is first-quality, graded to industry specifications, and available in standard flooring lengths.
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Need Help choosing a ukulele?
Im a guitarist and i want to learn how to play ukulele too. im looking for a sound like nevershoutnever, but i also like jack johnson and jason mraz. I've decided that i want a tenor ukulele that can can plug into an amp. Im deciding between Kala or Oscar Shmidt.
These are the ukulele's im considering:
Kala KA-TE Tenor Mahogony $220 (or the KA-TEBK, same thing in black, $259)
Kala KA-KTE Koa Tenor Cutaway $519
Kala KA-STE Solid Spruce top tenor $359
Oscar Shmidt OU6LCE $629
I just want to hear what people's opinions are, like which one is best for the money, and also whether you think the oscar schmidt is better than the kala koa cutaway or visa versa.
PLEASE tell me your opinions about any of these ukuleles. any help is much appreciated
Answer:
Spend a little more and get a Kamaka. Much better ukulele.
























































































