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Installing Quartersawn Ash Flooring

Bob joins Steve Clementi of Stanley Co. for the installation of quarter-sawn Ash in the main room of the Manhattan Brownstone. Clementi explains how the crew lays the floor to have even distribution where it reaches the walls and maximum views across the length of the floor from opening to opening. This is a nail-down installation that is completely adhesive free. Quarter-sawn Ash was selected because of the beauty of the wood, the straight grain, and the superior stability of each board. Quarter-sawn boards are milled from logs that are first cut into quarters, like pieces of a pie. Each quarter is then cut at a 45-degree angle to create the individual boards. This approach makes for a straight grain rather than the cathedral or arching grain that is common with Oak and Ash. Although the product costs more than Strip Oak, the beauty and durability of the floor is worth it.
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Installing Quartersawn Ash Flooring

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" OK we're making progress in the main room of our floor through putting down -- And -- Qaeda Steve Clemente was here from Stanley go behind our fire already. This is this the big improvement in the apartment is about a 22 -- room. Curtis is probably take all -- to do it right yes is there some reason why they don't start up against the wall or in a corner but right in the middle of the room. Well what we did Bob agree senate is down this the -- here's the week. So both walls instead of starting for the wall and ending up -- with a small piece at one of the walls here -- is that the main thing that's what we get this we also have a kind of an old. Open almost from front to back. Between the connecting hall in the kitchen area an open area so we're trying to get the best visual between the hallways of the walls here. It's an open space for the overall while looking down so yes yeah it's beautiful stuff. Now where we're putting down. -- is running. Best garden from countries where they -- Quarters it's a lot of people don't quite what we mean by that we look closely at the return we'll show that we can explain. It's good looking stock. When you -- Quarters on what exactly does that mean quarter sawn means that the gonna have a straight grain into the yard to the board as opposed to something and a cathedral grain that you would see -- plain -- or an oak plain sawn piece of wood OK. And how do they actually millet. And he's milled on it's milled from a log -- the circular log and it's cut in four sections. Prior to section is kind of -- wet your -- shape up or quadrant in a pie -- yeah and it premiered agency and they cut it on a 45 degree angle. And I'll give you the straight grain in the world and it also makes it a more stable piece of work so that is the key thing in terms of ending up with this grain pattern that's correct -- Now there is similarity between Nashville right yes there -- some as far as the durability of the of the material. Because it harder. Carson -- hardness factor. It'll give you many many years of good wear and terror and those innings finishing third generation yet know this this watch them putting it down here his. It it is being power nailed and or rather. Manpower nailed yeah the boys -- manual -- Bob that I can -- the heart of the hydraulics why is that. It's just a very personal preference on what they -- again. And we've got. Certain sections of the subfloor here that are clearly marked. Pipes. And there's an instant in this -- we're using up an inch and a half probably. We want to make sure that we don't go through the the plywood subfloor -- the fight. It's a little bit shorter that we would normally that you -- yet but. To court that we do that for this insulation is you don't want to pierce any pipes that got terrible odor okay. And there aren't any glues involved right -- local involved insulation it's it's held on installation. Now the cost of putting down a hardwood floor care system laminated floors and from the man made flooring products it's still higher right it is. Reporters all product it's higher installation Paul courtesy let's talk about the most common. Nation of hardwood floors. Red oak strip oak flooring red oak strip oak flooring in Atlanta has. This or working in would run for boxes. 1650 a square foot installed sanded and finished and finish and finish project correct. And it was something like this quarter -- product or some -- run between 2220 -- square foot in the ash. In the past its its -- its network. And undercut apple prices they are indeed their patent rights in that --"

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