I and my three sons – whatever happened to Fred Mac Murray anyway? – just layed about 2400 sq ft of red and white oak plank in our new house. We are dried in (the texture guys had just finished their work) and I am time away from getting the HVAC up and running, so I am concerned about the wood buckling from humidity. The wood is 5 inch white plank downstairs and 4 inch red plank upstairs. The first floor is a slab with a troweled tar/visqueen/30 lb felt/5/8 ply subfloor with expansion joints (washers) every 5 rows; the upstairs is Advantec/felt, same expansion spacing. I covered both downstairs and upstairs with heavy brown paper thinking that it might act as an absorption barrier (kinda like silica gel?), not to mention that I want to protect the floor from paint and traffic. I live in Norman Oklahoma, and it’s the rainy season. Should I go for de-humidifiers until I’ve got A/C? It will probably be four to six weeks before I’m at that point. Any thoughts or experience is, as always, greatly appreciated.
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I would. A hundred bucks or so is cheap insurance.
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Yeah, that's what I'm leaning toward, but I wanted to bump the situation against the rest of the Experienced Worldwise. Would you run one upstaris and one downstairs? Also, run 'em 24/7 or just on high humidity days?
24/7one up and one down? Depends...
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We keep two de-humidifiers going in our houses in the crawlspace while under construction by default, in your case I'd bring them in and set them to run 24/7 with hoses to take the condensate out the closet flanges or under the doors.
Be sure to set them up out of the way and on a sheet of plywood in case they drip.
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