Moisture control & the assemblies that actually work.
How to think about concrete, wood substrates, HVAC, and timing so that your wood flooring system isn’t fighting the building’s moisture profile from day one.
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Architectural Wood Flooring
Wood flooring insights, written for A&D teams.
A dedicated journal for architects, interior designers, and specifiers who want to understand why wood flooring systems succeed, why they fail, and how to design with more confidence.
Explore moisture control, radiant heat assemblies, finish durability, trend analysis, and real case studies drawn from projects where failure simply wasn’t an option.
Best way to use this page: keep it open as a reference when you’re
writing specs, developing details, or troubleshooting a project with early signs of distress.
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Narrow the journal to the type of work you’re doing now — design-forward A&D pieces, deep technical briefs, or quieter inspiration and case studies.
Latest Insights
Journal, briefs & field notes.
A mix of technical deep dives, design-focused pieces, and case studies built from moisture readings, on-site investigations, and decades of project work.
Designing wood flooring over radiant heat without fear.
Species selection, formats, adhesives, and controls we’ve seen perform — and the combinations that almost always lead to checking, gaps, or complaints.
Finish durability in real life, not just in a brochure.
What owners actually notice over the first five years, how different finish systems age, and how to align expectations with reality in your specs and presentations.
Quiet luxury in wood flooring: what actually ages well.
A look at formats, tones, and patterns that read as “now” without feeling disposable, and how to spec them so they still look intentional ten years from installation.
Case study: rescuing a cupping floor in a penthouse.
How early cupping in a luxury residence led to a forensic review of HVAC, balcony doors, and substrate — and the system redesign that kept the project on the rails.
Case study: large-format planks in a high-traffic lobby.
Balancing movement, acoustics, and owner expectations in a hospitality lobby where the wood floor is both a finish material and a piece of branding.
Pattern as structure: when herringbone and chevron solve problems.
Using pattern not just as a visual choice but as a tool for movement control, transitions, and wayfinding in complex plans.
Reading a failure like an inspector: a primer for A&D.
The mental checklist we use on every failure investigation, translated for architects and designers who want to see problems before the punch list.
Continuing Education
CEUs rooted in real failures, not theory.
Use these modules to train your team, reset office standards, or anchor a lunch-and-learn around the systems that actually hold up on site.
Weekly virtual CEU — wood flooring systems that don’t fail.
A live, case-driven session that walks through actual failures — delamination, face checking, buckling, cupping — and the upstream design decisions that would have prevented them.
- See how real assemblies behaved over time, not just in lab conditions.
- Understand which details, tolerances, and responsibilities matter most.
- Bring your own projects to the Q&A for live feedback.
Stay Ahead
A quiet, useful newsletter for A&D.
No blasts, no product spam — just occasional field notes, failure patterns we’re seeing, and the systems that are working on the projects we’re called into.
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