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Re: garage Floors

To: prsmith@cast.navnet.net
Subject: Re: garage Floors
From: "W. R. Gibbons" <gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu>
Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 16:18:17 -0500 (EST)
On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 prsmith@cast.navnet.net wrote:

> I have been thinking of installing a cement slab but today an aquaintence
> suggested that a wood floor may be the way to go.  regardless of the type
> of floor I install I will probably have to build frost walls since in due
> course the garage will be attached to my house.
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas/experience/comments with respect to wood floors
> in agarage?

I'd go with a concrete floor with a vapor barrior under it.  I can't see 
many advantages for a wood floor in a garage (comfort and warmth, possibly), 
and i can think of several disadvantages. 

   Ray Gibbons  Dept. of Molecular Physiology & Biophysics
                Univ. of Vermont College of Medicine, Burlington, VT
                gibbons@northpole.med.uvm.edu  (802) 656-8910


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