Hardwood Flooring ??

[logan97]

It depends on what type of flooring you are doing. As said previously, minimum 2 days. This time of year the humidity is low so the flooring will likely not be swollen. Some floating floors have a plywood layer glued to the bottom and those are very dimensionally stable. Many of the prefinished options have very low moisture levels if stored indoors before delivery to you.

My Bad it is 3 1/4" hardwood 3/4 character grade white oak flooring

 

[mbohuntr]

Oak is one of the more stable woods, Our present floor barely moves at all. The last floor I installed was soft maple, I put it down tight in July/August, and by January, you could see 1/64" gaps all around the fireplace area, less as you moved away from the heat. Add a 1/64" gap times number of planks and you could see the possibilities of the floor lifting during very humid periods if it wasn't gapped.

 

[sixdogs]

do you think after installation the wood heat is going to adversely effect the flooring ?

Yes it will. We had kiln dried flooring and used it in a cold climate that got to low humidity in the winter. Despite really dry flooring we still had some pretty good gaps open up in winter that sort-of closed up back in summer when the humidity increase. If you put it down in the driest part of winter it could pop up some boards during summer expansion.

Again, we were in a cold climate, heated with wood stoves plus had hot water baseboard and it got pretty dry in the winter.