Description
Summit Grandeur Engineered Hickory: Wide Plank Hardwood at Open Plan Scale
Large rooms are not simply small rooms with more floor in them. Scale changes what works. A board that looks generous in a hallway can look fussy across a long open living space, and the reason is seams. Summit Grandeur Engineered Hickory is 7-1/2 inches wide, mostly in lengths around six feet, and in a big open room that combination changes the character of the floor entirely.
What width does to a large space
Every board edge is a line. A narrow strip floor across a wide open area produces a great many of those lines, and the eye reads the result as busy and finely divided. Wide plank hardwood does the opposite. Fewer boards cover the same area, so there are fewer long seams, and the surface reads as a continuous plane of timber rather than an assembly of pieces. The room feels calmer and, oddly, larger.
Length does similar work in the other direction. With most boards running around six feet, end joints are comparatively sparse, where a floor of short boards produces a dense field of joints the eye picks out. Long boards carry a run of floor from one side of a space to the other with very little interruption, which is why open concept hardwood so often specifies a wide, long board. The floor stops competing for attention and becomes the ground the room sits on.
The problem a wide board creates in a smaller room
The same width that makes open concept hardwood convincing can be awkward in a modest room, and this is worth hearing before you order rather than afterwards. Divide a small room by the width of a 7.5 inch flooring board and you will often find the last row lands as a narrow sliver against the far wall. A thin final strip looks like a mistake even when the rest of the floor is perfect, and in a small room it is close to a wall you look at constantly.
The solution is set out, decided before any fastening begins. The first row is adjusted so that the first and last rows share the leftover width more or less evenly, which turns one bad row into two acceptable ones. Doorways and transitions are planned at the same time. It is simple arithmetic, but it has to be done with a tape measure in the actual room, and it is the clearest reason to involve an installer before you commit to a quantity.
The board in detail
Summit is engineered hickory, a genuine hardwood wearing layer bonded over a multi layer core with alternating layer directions, which keeps a wide board far more settled through a humid summer and a dry heating season than a solid board of the same width would be. The boards are 3/4 inch thick with a handscraped finish and a 2.0 mm wear layer, each carton covers 23.32 square feet, and a 35 year warranty applies. Nail, staple or glue down installation is possible, above or below grade. A wide plank needs a flat subfloor, so levelling is part of the budget rather than an afterthought.
Scale, set out and quantities
Professional installation is recommended, and for a wide board it is close to essential, since flatness tolerances and set out decisions both have less margin. Please confirm the specification, the install method, whether each room suits 7.5 inch flooring, and your quantities with the Petun Flooring team before ordering.
Study the product photograph carefully, then come and see a full board laid out, because a board this wide is difficult to judge from a thumbnail. Summit can be collected in Kitchener and Cambridge, inventory is limited, and if you arrive with your measurements we can check your row count and settle cartons at the counter.
Specifications
Grandeur Hardwood Flooring
Color: SUMMIT
Size: 71/2″ x 3/4 x Random Lengths (majority 6 ft.)
Sqft: 23.32 sf per box
Wood Species: Hickory
Finish: Handscraped
Wear Layer: 2.0mm
35 year warranty
Can be installed above or below grade
Nail, staple or glue down installation
