From: "Noozer" 
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair alt.building.construction rec.woodworking misc.consumers.house
Subject: Re: How to install hardwood flooring the wrong way?
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 16:59:48 GMT


"Phil Scott"  wrote in message
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> "Alan Sung"  wrote in message
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> > "Wilson"  wrote in message
> > news:Fzf2d.3119$n16.1510@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net...
> > > Use a vapor barrier below the floor, especially over
> basement/crawl space.
> > > If there's a crawl space, put plastic on the ground there
> too.
> > > Wilson
> >
> > I hope you don't mean directly under the hardwood. I
> wouldn't want a vapor
> > barrier between the hardwood and the subfloor. The usual
> thing is to use
> > rosin paper between the hardwood and the subfloor.
>
>    a basement slab is not a sub floor...  untreaded wood
> against concrete with no vapor barrier rots

Uhm.. How many concrete slabs have a crawlspace beneath them?

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