Irish food remains the traditional working man's cuisine. It is characterized by simple cooking methods and little reliance on elaborate sauces and spices. Most households still eat the tried and trusted combination of roasted meat, green vegetables and potatoes, although this has shifted to more organic produce and healthier meals.
11 Comments. Wide Plank Flooring has been in fashion for some time now. A plank floor refers to a board width wider than 3â³. Anything less than 3â³ wide is strip flooring. There are many reasons for wanting wide plank flooring. Itâs beautiful and itâs not the run of the mill commodity product that you get from some all inclusive flooring box store. But wide plank doesnât always work.
1 Remove the floor vent and look at the wood that is in the gap. 2  Hardwood flooring typically has a thickness of three-quarter inches thick all the way to one and a quarter inch thick. 3  Check the wood. What you want to do is look between the support beams and joists at the wood. 2  The way you can tell is by looking at the grain in the wood and the size of the planks. 3  Hardwood flooring is typically four inches wide and the opposite, softwood flooring, is about five inches wide or more.