“What’s the largest false impression about acclimation that you simply take care of?”

John Alford – Alford’s Customized Hardwood Flooring

The most important false impression about acclimation is that it solely takes a sure variety of days. Acclimation will be achieved solely by checking with a moisture meter, not the period of time the flooring sits on the jobsite. Taking good moisture readings and evaluating these to the moisture content material on the jobsite, and documenting them, is the one solution to actually acclimate wooden.

Michael Caldarera – Ron-Del Ground Service Inc.

The most important misconceptions are that they don’t have to manage their surroundings to supply a correct solution to acclimate the ground and that it’s managed by a timeline, not by the precise moisture content material. Most individuals assume they may wait seven to 10 days and we’re good to go. The very fact is that the ground will probably be prepared when it’s prepared. In southern Louisiana, it’s additionally primarily based on what time of yr it’s. In the summertime, it’s not laborious to acclimate the wooden as a result of we have now all the moisture we have to discover the steadiness. We wrestle to get moisture into the wooden from October to February as a result of our humidity is a bit decrease at the moment of the yr. We all the time should anticipate the following summer season when the wooden will achieve moisture.

Randy Harris – Excessive Desert Hardwood

If individuals ship wooden to a jobsite earlier than the jobsite is as much as its dwelling circumstances, the wooden doesn’t acclimate in any respect. In reality, it’d damage the acclimation of it to start with as a result of if the
humidity is lower than the anticipated dwelling circumstances, then the wooden is both going to dry out or it’s going to be too moist, relying on the season and the place you’re situated throughout the nation. We’re in a really dry local weather right here in Utah, so our largest battle is getting the relative humidity as much as the place it must be. So, if a house is air-conditioned and the humidity is true, we prefer to see stable wooden sit in the home for possibly per week, and after it’s put in, I’d put a minimal two-week interval on it – and that’s the minimal period of time – to see if the wooden goes to maneuver or not. Often, we’re fairly protected if individuals adhere to these tips.