Hardwood Floors Oct/Nov 2019

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Acclimation End-Grain

End-grain wood flooring is cut from the tree so that the face of the board surface exposes the ends of the growth rings. This is also known as the transverse cut. End-grain flooring will shrink and swell according to the tangential value in the direction across the circumference of the growth rings, and according to the radial value in the direction perpendicular to the growth rings, with essentially no movement in thickness. In laymen’s terms, what this means is that once installed, it will shrink and swell on all four of its sides, unlike plainsawn flooring that shrinks/swells primarily in its width.

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