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Hardwood Floor Test
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The goal: Find out which floor and fastening method responds well to drying, and what is their relative dry time.
We aren’t using any exotic equipment, and we aren’t trying to break a world speed drying record. The goal is to give our customers real world expectations and solutions for a very common problem in water restoration.
The Test
We have built a test platform to help answer the questions on wood floors. In a controlled environment, which kinds of wood flooring respond well to drying, and which are better replaced? We’re testing 4 popular kinds of floors:
- True ¾” pre-finished oak
- Bamboo plank flooring
- Higher quality engineered wood floor
- Lower quality engineered wood floor
We’re also testing 3 fastening methods for each kind of floor:
- Nailed directly to plywood subfloor
- Nailed over 15# tar paper over plywood subfloor
- Directly glued down to plywood subfloor
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How to get involved
In person: If you’re in the Nashville, TN area during March 19-26, you can come by our training center during normal business hours and see what’s going on.
Online: You can access the data from the loss by going online to www.gehygrotrac.com and using the username “DRIEAZ GUEST” with the password “hygrotrac.” The name of the job is “2010.3 Wood Floor Drying Test Nashville”
Email Comments: click here to email Kevin Fisher at Restoration Sciences Academy with questions and comments.
Want a copy of the final report? Click here to get on the list.
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