{"id":52940,"date":"2011-01-21T08:15:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T08:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/?p=52940"},"modified":"2011-01-21T10:42:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T10:42:05","slug":"5-inch-vs-3-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/01\/5-inch-vs-3-14\/","title":{"rendered":"5 inch vs 3 1\/4 inch floor boards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am putting in new hardwood (oak) flooring. I am deciding between 3 1\/4 inch and 5 inch widths.<\/p>\n<p>I love how wider floor boards look, but I am concerned about cupping etc when the humidity changes. I know there are things you can do to avoid it, but I believe its not 100% avoidable and the chance of a problem is greater the wider the boards are.<\/p>\n<p>The house is well insulated and attached on both sides so I think temp\/humidity fluctuations would be more controlled.<\/p>\n <span class=\"plp-active-page\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/span> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/01\/5-inch-vs-3-14\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"\">%<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am putting in new hardwood (oak) flooring. I am deciding between 3 1\/4 inch and 5 inch widths. I love how wider floor boards look, but I am concerned about cupping etc when the humidity changes. I know there are things you can do to avoid it, but I believe its not 100% avoidable&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-52940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/01\/5-inch-vs-3-14\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"5 inch vs 3 1\/4 inch floor boards","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/01\/5-inch-vs-3-14\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2011\/01\/5-inch-vs-3-14\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Floors","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"manana"}],"creator":["manana"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2011-01-21T08:15:23Z","datePublished":"2011-01-21T08:15:23Z","dateModified":"2011-01-21T10:42:05Z"},"rendered":"<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"wp-parsely-metadata\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@type\":\"NewsArticle\",\"headline\":\"5 inch vs 3 1\\\/4 inch floor boards\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2011\\\/01\\\/5-inch-vs-3-14\\\/\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.brownstoner.com\\\/forum-archive\\\/2011\\\/01\\\/5-inch-vs-3-14\\\/\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"url\":\"\"},\"articleSection\":\"Floors\",\"author\":[{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"name\":\"manana\"}],\"creator\":[\"manana\"],\"publisher\":{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"name\":\"Forum Archive\",\"logo\":\"\"},\"keywords\":[],\"dateCreated\":\"2011-01-21T08:15:23Z\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-01-21T08:15:23Z\",\"dateModified\":\"2011-01-21T10:42:05Z\"}<\/script>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/brownstoner.com\/p.js"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","print_hed":"","photo_gallery":[],"print_subhed":"","print_slug":"","syndication_thumb":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52940"},{"taxonomy":"districts","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/districts?post=52940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}