Re: [A/S] Pergo flooring?

[Greg Hankins <ghankins@xxxxxx>]

Hunter,

The parquet has tongues and grooves like other wood flooring, so we 
used "Floating floor glue" (which looks remarkably like Elmers) to glue 
tongues to grooves, but did not glue the squares to the flooring 
underneath. I tried this after reading about others on the VACList who 
had tried it with various types of wood floor. As I understand the 
theory, letting the floor "float" means it is free to expand and 
contract with temperature and moisture variations, which can be 
substantial over short time periods inside an Airstream. Gluing the 
floor down doesn't give it the same freedom to expand and contract, so 
you're more apt to get buckling of the floor.

We've had the floating floor for 2 years and it's been great. As I 
mentioned in the original post, any problems with swelling from water 
in places it shouldn't be has been easy to correct.

Greg
'76 Tradewind