wide plank floor w/ radiant

tim smith

Just a ??, you guys seen any problems to speak of with 6" quarter sawn white oak floor over radiant tube with Gyp, using proper temps on water and proper 80 degree surface temps. Just checking. Thanks Tim.

Constantin

Have a look over at...

... launstein.com and the hardwood council. They have very good recommendations that cover all things hardwood on Radiant floors.

If you want to go truely bomb- and crack-proof, I have heard that building a floating floor can do the trick. Such floors are not attached to the underlying joists and "float" above, with some room around the edges hidden under the baseboards to accept expansion and contraction.

harvey

7\" wide maple floor

7" wide maple flooring over sub-ray. engineered floating floor. No problems at all to date 2 yrs.

tim smith

thanks for the reply

Can't do floating floor, needs to be gyp and sleepers. I am not to crazy about the customers selection of 6" wide oak in this. I have given him the information from hardwood council as to the concerns over wider than 3" boards. Up to him now.

S Davis

Floating

Maybe floating but I would run away very fast from sleepers and wide plank.
I did one with 8,000 square feet of ten inch wide plank but it was a floating floor with two sheets of 1/2" opposing plywood and the wide plank nailed to that it did really well, but I have seen wide plank on sleepers that looked horrible.


S Davis


Apex Radiant Heating

John Felciano

Watch

The moisture content of the hardwood AND the gyp it sometimes takes a long time for the moisture levels to be at an acceptable level.

Will the customer object to small gaps in the flooring or does he expect it to be perfectly seamless?

Have you looked into "dry" systems rather than the gyp?

tim smith

I agree, documentation to bldr yesterday.

tim smith

I agree, documentation to bldr yesterday.