FWIW we installed hand scraped prefinished hickory from Somerset in our great room. Last Christmas the tree stand cracked and a gallon of water or so soaked everything around the tree. No impact to the floor.

We went with the solid Somerset Hickory BTW (not the thinner engineered material) as we were transitioning to tile in the kitchen so the kitchen cement board underlayment plus tile thicknesses came out real nice for a transition to the wood. No transition strip was needed.

Last edited by Bill D.; 06/24/15 09:12 PM.

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