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Cuz real wood flooring is normally in much smaller pieces. 3" widths......etc.
Composite does expand........much wider planks and is made to float, so no need to fasten it down.
YMMV
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The Revos apparently are designed to clamp railroad ties and pull together horrifically prepared joints
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Ok. Please help a hard headed German understand this expansion/contraction thing for laminates. I know and understand wood moves within the grains. But since there are no grains, etc. in composites how do they expand and contract? Plus, just how close to the walls do you lay laminate without the planks separating during movement?
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Vinyl flooring is glued down, at least in commercial applications with the glues designed to allow for movement and gaps do not appear. Although this is typically a much larger area on install.
As mentioned, floating floors will lock together somehow (based on various designs) so the entire floor acts as one unit.
Being two completely different materials, wood and vinyl, it's hard to compare their expansion since it occurs for different reasons.