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Originally Posted by mrdarcy
I had a floor of floating engineered wood installed over concrete in my basement for my mother who lived with me until she died at age 84. I used engineered wood because it has less of a tendency to buckle in humidity owing to man-made backing. I had the installer put it in as floating, as opposed to glued down, because floating is a bit more "springy". When my mom fell down on occasion she never injured herself because the floating engineered wood was resilient enough to absorb the energy of the fall. The engineered wood is about as expensive as real wood. I loved this flooring (and I loved my mom).
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Good to know. I totally now understand what my carpenter meant by floating wood floor....thanks to all of you.
Also, that was very considerate of you to be so understanding of your elderly mom's frailities with the falling, etc.
Been there, done that for my own mom, who passed at age 91.