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- From: brooksp@hpcc01.corp.hp.com (Peter Brooks)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 20:34:51 GMT
- Subject: Re: Wood Floors Using Pine!
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- [Just stopped by for a bit...]
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- Hmm, I've never seen "fur" flooring. Sounds pretty decadent. :-)
-
- I'm using fir as a finish flooring in my kitchen. Can't say I'm
- thrilled with it, and some of my problems have bearing on most pine.
- I cannot speak about Southern Yellow pine, however; never used it.
-
- Fir particularly is quite responsive to changes in humidity. It will
- swell and shrink a lot more than oak, so you tend to get more crud in
- the gaps, and it's difficult to come up with any sealants for this.
- I suspect pine will swell more than oak, but less than fir.
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- Fir and many pines (probably not SY, however) are pretty soft; you will
- have to be careful in moving things around unless you are willing to
- put up with the 'surface entertainment'.
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- Fir tends to show quite a bit of figure; after a few seasons, you will
- see a lot of ripple as the earlywood and latewood shrink at different
- rates. Whether this is a bug or a feature is up to you. Pine should
- not have this problem. BTW, vertical grain fir probably wouldn't, but
- it's rare, and last I looked, was as expensive as oak.
-
- BTW, I'm using fir because it was originally used as underlayment in
- my kitchen. I took up the lino and finished the fir because I wanted to
- see how well a wood floor worked in a kitchen (fairly well) and because
- I didn't want to do an oak floor until I could get ready to do a more
- thorough remodel. If the budget ever lets me, I'll replace the fir
- with oak, but I'm not holding my breath.
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- Pete Brooks
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