What do you think of this stone floor?
Certainly it’s very attractive.
But would it be too “textured” for your daily use?
I once encountered a woman who told me her tale of woe, how she was living in her new home and that a gap had appeared between two of her floorboards (about an eighth of inch). She told me of her frustration that her builder had not come back to repair or replace the flooring in that room because of this issue. She was pondering suing the builder and asked my opinion. My only response for her was to be thankful that only one board had such a small gap in her house, that her house contained thousand of pieces of wood whose behavior was beyond the control of the man who installed them.
It’s issues like this why so many good builders close their doors.
Originally posted 2016-01-01 17:12:07.
I have some pine doors that I am going to have to make extra thick stops for, because they expand and contract with the hummidity so much that they won’t close in the summer months , and the stop that came with the door just isn’t big enough to cover fully the gap in the winter. Wood floors expand and contract., even strip flooring (which is smaller).
Most materials do.
I made the mistake of think I would put aluminum facias on my place, figuring I won’t have to maintain them. What a mistake. nomatter how you hand them, when the sun hits them they buckle. They are dark brown so they stick out really bad. To top it all off, we get a lot of wind, so the nails start to wiggle lose. So I ended up having to climb up anyway and face nail to keep them on the house. I even tried to silicone them on. No luck. NEVER AGAIN. I would rather have wood, and let it naturally age.
On the stone floor. I like it, the ony problem is “toe catching”.
No doubt about it, there are a lot of “trade-offs” in the materials we select.
Exterior doors, unless they come from a factory, are always fussy. I tell people that when I build a cabin… “you have an option of having an ugly factory door that will keep the air out year round… or a door of beauty and character that will either stick or let a bit of air in… which would you like to have? Everyone, myself included chooses a handmade door.
So true, that wood, even when it misbehaves, is a joy to behold.