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Best Moisture Meter
"These Babies Are Expensive!"
A BEST moisture meter will be, right?
They all pay for themselves, MANY TIMES OVER if you're a pro
and are cheap insurance for the longest life of any wood floor!
I won't spend much time on this. Let me just tell you what I have, why, and then you make the call.
For wood...
I settled on the Delmhorst J-4 you see here. Two, in fact.
Way back in the 1900's there weren't as many moisture meter choices.
If you are a pro, the Delmhorst J-4 is still my recommendation for wood because:
- it's so easy to use.
- easy to explain and leave with client for material monitoring.
- no calibrating and re-calibrating necessary for accuracy. Just a fresh battery, is all.
- full 6% to 30% range means you're ready for any conditions.
- pins give the EXACT location of moisture, be it on the top of a board, bottom, or end grain, for that matter, which is VERY important for troubleshooting water invasion.
- comes with a TOUGH carrying case...
...for those plywood runs to Home Depot.
Is the plywood you buy dry?
Or did it just come through a driving rain?
Or was it just returned from someone's soggy basement project?