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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?

Just because a guy knows floor installations doesn't mean he
is an knowledgeable entomologist.

==My thought exactly.==

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?

==solid 3/4" oak (Orange borg bruce pre-fin flooring) over plywood subfloor
over crawlspace. Also a second floor hallway and bedroom.==

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

Check these guys out. They even have a help line.

http://tinyurl.com/6gd83j

Robert,

Thanks for the input, and the link.

jc