Wood flooring pros know that a wood floor is only as good as its subfloor. The following products—all offered by advertisers in the August/September 2018 edition of Wood Floor Business—are designed to help measure and ensure subfloors are where they need to be in order to keep wood floors from experiencing sound, level or moisture issues.
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Stauf USA Adhesives LLC
ULC-500 Level-Seal is a two-component urethane leveling compound capable of creating a moisture barrier of up to 18 pounds CC or 97% RH. Level-Seal provides STC and IIC sound insulation and can be directly adhered to in just under four hours.
staufusa.com
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Delmhorst Instrument Co.
ProScan is Delmhorst's pinless moisture meter for flooring installers and inspectors to determine if wood is at equilibrium with its environment. ProScan has built-in species correction capability through specific gravity adjustment to measure a wide range of wood types, making it ideal for wood flooring, the company says.
delmhorst.com
DriTac Flooring Products
DriTac's new and improved MCS 7000 is a "green" two-part epoxy, concrete moisture control system that mitigates vapor emissions up to 100 percent relative humidity and 25 pounds. Offering a low perm rating, enhanced warranty and six-hour cure time, it is designed to be a first line of defense against subfloor moisture damage in wood and resilient flooring installations, the company says.
dritac.com
Fortifiber Building Systems Group
Accord sound-rated flooring pad maintains comfort underfoot, providing an acoustic barrier along with dependable moisture vapor protection with no detectable VOCs, Fortifiber Building Systems Group says. Its integrated seam seal tape makes it easy to install, the company adds. It is also a Class I moisture vapor barrier over concrete.
fortifiber.com
Lignomat USA Ltd.
The Ligno-Scanner SDM dual-depth, pinless meter is designed for measuring engineered flooring. The 1/4 -inch setting measures the hardwood top layer, and the 3/4-inch setting measures the overall board. The plywood can be measured from the backside on the 1/4 -inch setting. The meter also measures vertical, horizontal and strand bamboo on the 1/4 -inch depth setting.
lignomat.com
Loba-Wakol LLC
PU 280 is a single-component premium moisture barrier and primer that can be used on porous subfloors, non-porous subfloors, soft subfloor surfaces, "green" concrete slabs or concrete with residual moisture prior to installation of flooring, the company says.
loba-wakol.com
Tramex Meters
Tramex offers the Feedback Datalogger and App for performing ASTM F2170 and logging up to 100,000 data point entries of relative humidity, temperature, dew point and grains per pound, transmitting via Bluetooth BLE technology to a mobile device. Users can visualize live and logged readings and create and export spreadsheets, charts and reports.
tramexmeters.com
Wagner Meters
The Wagner Meters Smart Logger is a temperature and relative humidity monitor and data logger utilizing the latest Bluetooth 4.0 technology. The device sends data to the free Smart Logger app that can record, collect, and email up to 12,000 data readings and save them for 300 days.
wagnermeters.com
