10/14/2026
This was a sunroom on a Southwest Portland home. It sits outside the home's heating and cooling system and is lined with sliding glass panels and French doors.
The client needed a floor that could handle seasonal humidity swings, direct sun, and traffic from the patio without cupping, gapping, or swelling. It also had to look like a finished part of the house.
Solid hardwood struggles with nearly all of those conditions, so we steered toward waterproof laminate. The client chose Lions Floor Comfort Heights Pine Ridge. It's a 12mm light oak look on a wide 9¼" x 60" plank, with waxed joints and a UV-cured finish that holds its color in a bright room.
Before any planks went down, we skimmed patching compound along the plywood seams and fastener lines so the long planks wouldn't flex or click underfoot. After that we laid a moisture-barrier underlayment, acclimated the flooring in the room itself, installed it as a floating click-lock floor, and kept a consistent expansion gap at every wall and door track.
The result is a light, matte, wood-look floor that was chosen for the room's conditions first.
If you're planning a sunroom or an addition, we're happy to talk through what will and won't work in the space.
