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Gene GeRue wrote:
> On Nov 4, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Robert Walton wrote:
>
> > I'm thinking about going to a mill near here and getting some plank
> > wood for the floor and walls. Has any one done this? I'd like to put
> > down a plank floor. Do I need the wood to be tongue and groove? If I
> > just use oak planks for instance and finish them in place, my concern
> > is the groves that would be left between the planks. How do you handle
> > that?
>
> Your concern about grooves would be exacerbated by shrinkage.

Our home was built in 1968 from trees felled on the sight.  The floors 
were untreated pine boards(yellow pine), which had it's appeal, but over 
thirty years, had been gouged, painted in parts, and generally abused. 
The woodstove in the house, I think, caused exaggerated heating and 
cooling over that time, and when we bought the house, the gaps between 
the planks were about 1/8", actually larger in places.  This made for 
impossible cleaning...Because the floor was in such rough shape, we 
recently covered it with a good laminate and I can't be happier.  No 
more cracks to dig out, and now when I clean the floor, it looks clean 
and IS clean.

Bev
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