Hardwood Flooring February March 2018

ELOF HANSSON Baltic Birch

FORTIFIBER Vapor Retarders Perm Ratings Matter! NWFA publishes guidelines for vapor retarder perm ratings for a reason, recommending 0.7 to 10. Fortifiber is proud to publish perm ratings: Aquabar: 0.87, Seekure: 2.0, HWD-15: 5.0. Beware of imitators that do not publish perm ratings. Trust your floor install to products backed by science. fortifiber.com

Baltic Birch – void-free core. The highest quality engineered flooring substrate and underlayment. Inner plies are solid birch veneer, cross-banded, and laminated with exterior grade adhesive. Blow detection scanned for quality control. Offered 6 mm thru 18 mm/sizes: 4’ × 4’; 4’ x 8’; 5’ × 5’; 5’ × 8’. CARB 2 Lacy Compliant E1/FSC available. ehply.com

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LIGNOMAT Moisture Meters

JOWAT Adhesives

Lignomat offers excellent pin, pinless, and RH moisture meters specifically suited for solid and engineered flooring, bamboo floors, panels, and different types of subfloors. Ligno-VersaTec combines all measuring technologies and includes RH connector for measuring the RH in the concrete using ASTM F2170 standard. Data Logger BL2 records ambient RH/T or in-situ probe measurements. lignomat.com

LOUISIANA PACIFIC LP Legacy LP Legacy® engineered subflooring features the highest bending stiffness and is one of the strongest subfloor panels available. With more resin, wax, and wood strands and made with Gorilla Glue Technology®, LP Legacy boasts superior moisture resistance, preventing edge swell, and carries a class-leading “Covered Until It’s Covered” no-sand warranty. testedextreme.com MAPEI CORPORATION Planiseal PMB Planiseal PMB is a one-component, moisture-curing, polyurethane compound that was designed to provide moisture vapor emission protection for wood and bamboo flooring on damp concrete substrates. It also serves as a bonding agent and moisture barrier system for self-leveling underlayments when applied in a double-coat method with dry sand. mapei.com Jowat Corporation in High Point, North Carolina, manufactures adhesives for the lamination of engineered flooring. This includes bonding decorative surface materials like veneers onto a board, substrate, or wood lamellae. We also offer specialty products for laminating sound/ moisture barrier to the underside of the engineered flooring. Made in the USA. jowat.com LOBA WAKOL Wakol PU-280 Wakol PU-280 is the fastest single- component moisture barrier and surface hardener on the market. No mixing requirement and ease-of-use make Wakol PU-280 the best choice for professionals. Wakol MS adhesives can be installed directly on top of Wakol PU-280 creating a best-in-class installation. loba-wakol.com

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FROM OUR FOREST TO YOUR FLOOR

Dura Woods Group is a vertically integrated Forest Products Company. Our privately owned concessions in Peru are comprised of over 750,000 hectares (3,000 Square Miles) of sustainable hardwood forests yielding an annual capacity of over 25,000m3 (10,000,000 BdFt) of 100% FSC products.

NATURAL MAYAN COLLECTION

PERUVIAN ASH JATOBA (ECO)

CUMARU PERUVIAN TIGERWOOD (CUSCO)

MASSARANDUBA

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SANTOS MAHOGANY

PERUVIAN OLIVEWOOD

PERUVIAN TIGERWOOD

BRAZILIAN OAK

PERUVIAN WALNUT

CONTACT : 225 S Henderson Rd King of Prussia, PA. USA 19406 Office : 484-965-9689 info@durawoodsgroup.com

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