The Floor Center - Support for Architects & Builders

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Support for Architects

Support for Builders

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The Floor Center is your professional, “go-to” organization for direction and advice on wood flooring and flooring issues.

We will help you follow recommended industry practices.

Based on your client's product selection, we will make sure you have the correct substrate requirements.

Wood flooring requires an established environment near occupied conditions.

We Will—

Check job site conditions before flooring delivery and installation.

Advise on corrective options, if conditions are not correct.

Install according to manufacturer’s recommendations with attention to detail.

Check product both before and during installation for acceptance.

We will check the site to determine if, in fact, it is ready for wood flooring.

A proper subflooring must be in place. Wood flooring is a premium product and thus requires a better than “to code” flooring system or a “code plus” system. If the system simply meets code, the likely result will be call backs, from such issues as noises, movement, gaps, and related finishing issues. The time taken for just addressing a call back related to the minimum system will most likely cost more than the code plus upgrade for wood flooring.

We will also check for extra site moisture and proper environmental conditions. We will use a moisture meter to check site conditions.

We know the typical conditions required for the San Francisco Bay Area and report the conditions we expect to observe. If they are found to be different from the expected, we will give you options for corrective action, actions such as: using fans and dehumidifiers to reduce high moisture conditions, repairing/refastening subflooring, making the subflooring flat, and completing wet work installation. Also, we will report that changing environmental conditions can not be accomplished over-night; they can take days or even weeks depending on conditions

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