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**obegeLype** · 08-18-2007, 12:32 PM

What's the right time when your local temperature range is -40C to +40C?

The driest time is best for furniture and musical instruments because swelling up won't destroy it but shrinking will. So my guess for your local would be winter with the heat on. Bring the wood inside and let in acclimate for a week before you install it.
If you leave about 1/4 inch around the perimeter and make the finished floor free floating, when it swells it won't buckle (too much)

The Finland dojo looks like the floor is pretty much a slab with the "cookies" (we call them biscuits) glued in and the planks glued together.

08-18-2007, 12:32 PM	#35
obegeLype Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 517 Senior Member	What's the right time when your local temperature range is -40C to +40C? The driest time is best for furniture and musical instruments because swelling up won't destroy it but shrinking will. So my guess for your local would be winter with the heat on. Bring the wood inside and let in acclimate for a week before you install it. If you leave about 1/4 inch around the perimeter and make the finished floor free floating, when it swells it won't buckle (too much) The Finland dojo looks like the floor is pretty much a slab with the "cookies" (we call them biscuits) glued in and the planks glued together.
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