BUILDING SECOND FLOOR ADDITION

Natural Cork Glue Down Parquet Tiles 12" Homogeneous Cork in Lisbon Matte

40T1OC60 Specifications: -Species: Cork. -Color: Lisbon Matte. -Construction: Homogeneous. -Installation areas: Below, on or above grade. -Installation type: Glue Down. -Factory applied adhesive: Pre-buttered tiles with water-based adhesive for superior adhesion. -Finish type: Sanded unfinished or factory finished with 3 coats Curable Oil Lacquer. -Width: 12''. -Length: 12''. -Thickness: 0.19''. -Square feet per carton: 88 sq ft. -Weight per carton: 53 lbs. Manufacturer's Warranty: -Residential: Limited Lifetime. -Commercial: 5 Years Limited Light/Medium Wear. -Structure: Limited Lifetime. Installation Sheet Warranty Sheet Maintenance Guidelines Sheet

Wood works. When warm and humid, floorboards will swell. When dry and cold, floorboards will shrink. Glue down, nails, screws,.. whatever you do, in the winter there will be cracks and gaps. In the summer, the floor may warp or curl. Floating installations prevent all this provided a good quality (minimum 135 micro/m?) moisture barrier is installed and 1mm/m expansion gaps are in place. Such floors stay flat and perfect throughout various conditions.
The backdraw is the noise!
Floating floors tend to sound hollow and cheap. On ordinary colors and patterns, such cheap sound is okay but, when superior woodspecies, exquisit gradings and luxuruous floorboard measurements are involved non consistent sound is no longer acceptable. Through a 2 mm cork backing and especially through a 12 mm heavy HDF core, the sound becomes like a true classic wooden floor.

Today's challenge. The stair-and-floor guys decided to solve a problem with stair tread heights by adding the thick boards on the right. They even glued them down, which is great for preventing creaking noises, but not so good if you want to make changes.

The problem is that fairly thick oak goes over those 3/4" boards,and much thinner cork flooring goes on the concrete to the left. There is going to be quite a drop at that threshold.

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