Tim S wrote:


Or heat the room to the hottest it *could* ever get in the wildest
fanstansies of summer allowing extra for the room being sunbaked with
the
windows closed (say 40C) and lay the material with no gap - but that
would
be sweaty work ;-



Does wood expand when it gets hot ?

It seems to me that in my house wood expands when it's cold & wet and
shrinks when it's hot & dry.