We had our flooring done around 2 months ago and it now looks like our Roof will not be done till beginning of February.
I understand that it could be bad for the floors and reduce its life ..
can anyone help .. Clarendon says this is fine and will not effect the floors.
Is there anyone who can defend what Clarendon says please
http://www.timber.net.au/index.php/Timber-Wood-Products-Reconstituted-Panel.html
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Installation of particleboard flooring
The Australian Standard AS 1860.2-2006 sets out the conditions for
using Class 1 flooring as well as providing information on the
appropriate precautions to take when laying both platform and fitted
flooring of particleboard. Platform flooring may be defined as the
laying into permanently fixed position of the flooring material over
the whole floor area as soon as joists are in position and before the
internal and external wall framing is erected, to provide a safe
working platform for the various tradesmen, and to speed up the
erection of the building; it necessarily involves the exposure of the
flooring membrane to the risk of considerable moisture uptake from
dewfall and rain before the building provides full protection.
Particleboard flooring should not be exposed to the weather for more
than two or three months. Edge swelling is a characteristic of
particleboard when exposed to moisture; the effect is limited
virtually to the area within 50 mm of the edge but much of the
swelling is not recoverable on drying so an appreciable amount of
material may have to be sanded off at the edges to obtain a level
floor if there has been a lot of exposure to the weather. This sanding
is likely to expose particles of a different size to the main body of
the sheet and have some effect on appearance. If the floor is to be
covered this is not important.
Exposure of the particleboard to the weather for more than two or
three months is likely to have an effect on its internal bonding
strength and stiffness.
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