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- Subject: Re: Pine Floors
- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!cdthq!gary
- From: gary@cdthq.UUCP (Gary Heston)
- Message-ID: <Hs4sXB2w161w@cdthq.UUCP>
- References: <1993Jan21.151124.9147@VFL.Paramax.COM>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 19:39:28 CST
- Organization: Garys' Home for Obsolete Computers
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- rickt@rmtc.paramax.com (Rick Thompson [RMTC/ISP]) writes:
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- > I recently put up a post about using Pine for flooring. Thanks for all
- > the responses. However, now I have another question. All the responses
- > I received indicate that Pine is soft and could be scratched and
- > dented easily. I suppose this is true if the floors were left mostly "raw" b
- > doesn't a good polyurithane (sp?) provide a hard surface? At least it should
- > protect the floors from being scratched.
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- It's not thick enough to provide structural support; you're expecting
- a layer of plastic the thickness of paper to hold up under a few
- hundred PSI (calculate before you flame, out there :-) ) without
- solid support. Won't work. As my brother is well aware....
-
- Gary Heston, at home....
- gary@cdthq.uucp
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