On Sep 9, 6:29*pm, "joe" wrote:

Recently, I was told that termites *love* the red rosin paper by a
professional installer. *"Everywhere we've torn up an old floor and found
termites, they've been into that rosin paper". *Now, there's a wooden
subfloor below the rosin paper and a wooden floor above it, so did the
termites really even have the ability to *avoid* getting into the paper? *Or
does the paper actually *attract* termites?

Joe - I am sure others will chime in here, but a couple of things come
to mind. Just because a guy knows floor installations doesn't mean he
is an knowledgeable entomologist.

Working with these jobsite guys on a regular basis, they tend to think
of things in pretty general terms, so you might want to take something
they say out of their line of work with a grain of salt.

My personal experience in bidding a termite repair job is that no
matter what it is or what is in the way, termites will eat it. OK,
metal excluded. I have seen them eat resin paper, but in the same
place have eaten plywood subfloor, OSB subfloor, white oak flooring,
and yes, even "treated" screeds. I think they eat the paper because
it is there; I don't think it attracts them.

But to find the right kind of underlayment, you need to match it to
your floor. That means you need to put out some more information. Is
it fastened to screeds? Is it an engineered wood installed over a
solid subfloor? Is it a traditional
1x 2 1/2" solid floor?

The flooring will dictate the kind of underlayment that you need, with
the final decision being a consideration for your subfloor attachment
method.

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Robert