Help!!!
I purchased 10 chipboard 22mm P5 panels to lay the flooring in the room, but cut one of them incorrectly so was only able to lay 9 of them. They were all bought over a month ago and have been stored flat in the room since then.
Having laid the 9 panels, I purchased 1 further chipboard 22mm P5 panel from a local merchant on Monday. I've cut this panel to size but but not yet laid/fitted it.
I'm paranoid that the moisture content of this final panel is significantly different from the other 9 panels that I've already laid, and could therefore cause a swelling/gap problem.
I purchased the following moisture meter from Amazon which measures the moisture content in Relative Humidity. This is showing a reading of 1% for the 9 panels I've already laid (and which were bought a month ago) and 1% for the new panel that I purchased on Monday.
I'm not sure I'm measuring it correctly - see picture. The new panel has been stored flat in the room it will be installed in since Monday.
How on earth do I determine for sure that the new panel's moisture content is close enough to the other panel's moisture content / the air humidity in the room, in order to give me comfort to lay it?
I purchased 10 chipboard 22mm P5 panels to lay the flooring in the room, but cut one of them incorrectly so was only able to lay 9 of them. They were all bought over a month ago and have been stored flat in the room since then.
Having laid the 9 panels, I purchased 1 further chipboard 22mm P5 panel from a local merchant on Monday. I've cut this panel to size but but not yet laid/fitted it.
I'm paranoid that the moisture content of this final panel is significantly different from the other 9 panels that I've already laid, and could therefore cause a swelling/gap problem.
I purchased the following moisture meter from Amazon which measures the moisture content in Relative Humidity. This is showing a reading of 1% for the 9 panels I've already laid (and which were bought a month ago) and 1% for the new panel that I purchased on Monday.
I'm not sure I'm measuring it correctly - see picture. The new panel has been stored flat in the room it will be installed in since Monday.
How on earth do I determine for sure that the new panel's moisture content is close enough to the other panel's moisture content / the air humidity in the room, in order to give me comfort to lay it?
