It was an exciting day indeed when I was able to order then pick up the radiant panels and flooring for the studio. We decided to go with a floated floor of Australian Cedar. The planks are quite thin and are NOT nailed into the subfloor. The wood is "manufactured," not a laminate, which means it has cross hatches of wood topped with several millimeters of real Australian Cypress: enough for a few sandings if warranted down the line.
The point of this is to create an extremely dimensionally stable flooring which will resist expansion, warping and cupping in the face of radiant heat exposure. Floating the floor gives it an added advantage of being able to move independently from the expansion and contraction of the panels themselves. This is not the studio. Its the living room. I wanted to expose the materials to humidity levels within the house for several days prior to installation.
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