Moisture & Wood Floors

During the summer, even the most carefully installed wood floors tend to expand and sometimes cup or even buckle. These events occur because of wood's relationship with moisture in the air. Air...

During the winter, even the most carefully installed wood floors tend to dry out and shrink. Customers begin to notice gaps between boards, and the phone calls begin. The floor behaves that way because of woods...

We all know the majority of wood flooring complaints are moisture-related. Although the relationship between water and wood can seem mysterious and complex, wood actually responds to moisture changes...

One of the topics that causes the most confusion in the wood flooring industry is moisture in concrete and the tests used to measure it. A common question is, "Do calcium chloride and RH concrete tests measure the same thing?" The quick answer...

San Francisco is a city with microclimates and sub-microclimates—local atmospheric zones where the climate differs from the surrounding area. Due to the city's varied topography, weather...

I recently visited a home in the Southwest to conduct a site inspection on a wood flooring installation completed approximately three years ago. The homeowners complained that their wood floors had too much gapping. While some gaps...

Every year, the vast majority of calls made to the National Wood Flooring Association's Technical Hotline are due to moisture-related problems such as warping, cupping, cracking and shrinking. It only makes sense...

When you're talking about problems with wood floors, nothing gets more attention than moisture and its consequences, like cupping. But lack of moisture can be just as big a problem as too much moisture. This time of the year...

Can the installation of a moisture vapor protection membrane prevent all moisture issues with a hardwood floor? That is usually the second question I get; the first question is typically...

Just mentioning "radiant heat" is enough to make some wood flooring contractors turn and run. They've heard the horror stories about jobs over radiant heat, or maybe they've been burned, so to speak, on their own...